[ToucanLoucan]

> My main argument was that if you put things like that in your applications then people start having opinions about it

You can say this about literally any discussion outside the realm of bugfixes. And yes I do want to discuss the psychology behind this, because this is, IMO, a perfect example of the tendency for a certain kind of dude (usually dude, anyway) to ascribe "objective," "rational," or other such power-words to their own personal opinions and state them as though they are fact.

Emoji's are characters, my guy. That's it. And if the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words" holds any water... well, I think a thousand is pushing it, but I think an emoji can save you a bunch of words in certain contexts, and doesn't need nearly as much attention for localization.

The only pushback I see consistently on this is from old farts like myself who remember fondly the days pre-emoji and have feels about it. And having feels is completely fair, but trying to pass off your feels as facts doesn't fly.

[DanielHB]

Let me give you an example that actually happened. We had a rocketship emoji to indicate success in an potentially dangerous operation related to high voltage wires. Right before we made a final release (which we would do every 4 months or so) someone in the QA department brought up that having a rocketship emoji on something that can catch fire and potentially explode is not a very good idea.

This was during a meeting and that derailed the meeting by a few minutes or so, but we had to make new last-minute pre-release for testing to remove the emoji. This was right before a release so pressure was high, you only have to run into something like this a few times before you start to think that this kind of thing is not worth any "good feelings" it might bring.

This job was a high stress environment where we were always behind schedule. This kind of thing, happened often enough that it was really getting to my nerves.

Personally I don't really mind emojis in the software I use as long as it works as intended. What I mind is wasting my time with this kind of stuff. This HTTP 418 is in the same kind of situation, I have had 3rd-party APIs throw 418 back at me (presumably some fun a dev had at that company) and I couldn't even tell if my request was wrong or if that was supposed to be a 500. Software for controlling high voltage is not supposed to be fun, network protocols are not supposed to be fun.

[drilbo]

So, it was swapped for a :thumbs_up:, right?