[ddtaylor]

I kind of find the excessive usage of emoticons and such distracting.

[bombcar]

Stand back! (I do this with ♥, 🩷, 🩵, and 🩶)

🫸🫨🫷

If you have a 🫎 would it rhyme with a 🪿 when there were more than two?

Probably shouldn't be a 🫏 to dang; the code just hasn't been updated to filter out the new naughties.

[crumbshot]

You can get a delightful spectrum of colour through the filter as well, using the large square emojis:

    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
    ⬜🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛⬜
    ⬜🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛🟥⬜
    ⬜🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛🟥🟧⬜
    ⬜🟩🟦🟪🟫⬛🟥🟧🟨⬜
    ⬜🟦🟪🟫⬛🟥🟧🟨🟩⬜
    ⬜🟪🟫⬛🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦⬜
    ⬜🟫⬛🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪⬜
    ⬜⬛🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪🟫⬜
    ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜

HN pixel art generator, anyone?

[krapp]

As soon as the HN fun police see this they're going to kill it, though.

[ehPReth]

sadly :(. they have a hate-on for emoji for some reason.

as does some of HN. time to upgrade from the 80s, folks ;)

[ddtaylor]

I think it's the same reason that excessive bold or ALL CAPS are not enjoyed by most: it's a distraction. Instead of focusing on the content of what is being written. I think icons, just like bold or CAPS, can be used in situations where it adds value (formatting pun intended) - but often times it's poorly used and distracting.

[syockit]

I have no idea what you've typed there. All I see is a heart and three boxes. And it doesn't seem that the boxes are decodable either. Whatever it originally was has probably been irreversibly replaced.

[bombcar]

You need to view it with a browser that supports Emojis 15 - https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/ - a modern phone should work

[eyelidlessness]

I find it delightful but I understand why others don’t. Given this is such a common complaint specifically about GitHub/similar source hosts’ READMEs, it feels like low hanging fruit for a probably simple browser extension to hide them.