Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    I think people 😘 find them more obnoxious 😱 than informative, and rate 💯 opinions higher than 😜 emotional reactions, because emotions are 🤑 cheap and add nothing to a constructive 🏗️ discussion

    • TangledHyphae@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      This sums it up. It’s meaningless noise. I wish there were a stable way of removing all emojis from a page via browser extension. Chrome’s kinda broke youtube comments, filtering out comments that didn’t have emojis, haven’t looked for a firefox replacement yet.

    • lad@programming.dev
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      11 months ago

      I’ll probably respond here instead of under the post: I use emojis to denote sarcasm or strong reactions usually, so I don’t feel the need to spray posts with them.

      Otoh they do have an ability to make anything seem silly and/or advertising 😅 so for the comical effect, why not 乁⁠(⁠ ⁠⁰͡⁠ ⁠Ĺ̯⁠ ⁠⁰͡⁠ ⁠)⁠ ⁠ㄏ