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by veryworried 2613 days ago
If you ever see emoji in hackernews comments then hackernews, as it has been, is over.
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blueline 2613 days ago
..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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veryworried 2612 days ago
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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chrfrasco 2612 days ago
Man, I wish I could use the eye-roll emoji here
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