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Looks like they have a bug to fix

I hope they fix it! lol

"We can't be bothered to properly handle Unicode" is not a great look for technologists.

It's an intentional design decision as far as I know (there was a phase where it did support them, and people didn't like it, and I think the block isn't perfect, so some emoji are still possible)

Has the advantage of not allowing emojis, and I can still post this

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Win-win

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何言ってんの？ この掲示板には、バカな文字だけが禁止。

I'm pretty young, I just don't think cutesy pictures are an advancement in communication.

Long before you and I were born, people typically only communicated orally. The alphabet wasn't really designed for spontanous communication. Countless emails were misinterpreted before the smiley appeared. But I do agree they are not strictly necessary for a "README" ...

Countless emoji-laden instant messages were misinterpreted this morning alone, along with countless emails.

They're an advancement in emotional communication on mobile devices.

I agree that there are contexts where emoji may be inappropriate (definitely Github, I'd disagree about HN, because I think this place needs to lighten up) but they do clearly have utility for a lot of people.

I hope HN never lightens up.

It does seem harsh at times, but when you start letting short/irreverent/low value content through and you end up with reddit.

> but when you start letting short/irreverent/low value content through and you end up with reddit

Many brilliant minds throughout history were also possessed of a keen sense of humor and a playful attitude which many HN users would consider infantile and puerile in modern culture. The implied inverse relationship between humor and "quality" of either intellectual or technical merit doesn't really exist, it's a cultural affectation, a taboo born out of the fear that humor breeds normality and normality brings the Eternal September effect.

However, HN doesn't often attach the same stigma to hostility or banality as it does humor. As a result, hostility and banality tend to flourish and become a means of virtue signalling because they aren't considered to be inherently toxic, merely bad form. Maybe dang wouldn't have to spend so much time talking users down from ledges if the culture here didn't require people to take everything so damn seriously.

And people have been complaining that HN is turning into Reddit since the beginning. There's plenty of content on Reddit of equal or greater quality than on HN, and plenty of HN users who also post on Reddit and elsewhere, and plenty of low value, low effort content here. Having that content also be humorless doesn't really add value.

People have been right since the begining, and no one wants to talk about it.

People talk about it all the time, or rather, they complain about it all the time. It's so common and tedious that there used to be a rule in the guidelines telling people to knock it off, calling it a "semi-noob delusion."

That's my point, it's literally got a rule telling us to not talk about it. We really should talk about it, though.

This.

What's cutsey about them?

The grown-ups you mean?

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