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Re:Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis by veryworried on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @02:00PM (#19684907)
If you ever see emoji in hackernews comments then hackernews, as it has been, is over.
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Re:Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis by blueline on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @02:09PM (#19684992)
..why? i see comments with ':-)' all the time. are the people here so pretentious that they're fundamentally opposed to using an ideogram?

better hope there aren't any closeted road-signage-designers lurking on HN then

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Re:Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis by veryworried on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @02:18PM (#19685067)
Emojis are too jocular for the tone we are trying to strike here. They lower the level of discourse down to something more like Reddit or Twitter.
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Re:Animating URLs with JavaScript and Emojis by chrfrasco on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @11:16PM (#19688443)
Man, I wish I could use the eye-roll emoji here
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