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 can’t wait to read printed text that has them to better enunciate certain plot points. Harry Potter could have used an 😱 or two to let me know in advance how to react to certain moments.

    • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      Realtime fast communication does not need to be the same as books written for centuries. Nobody is printing JSONs of internet comments as novels and biographies.

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        11 months ago

        I’ll give you that, emojis are good at quickly communicating intent in situations where time is short. But this is a message board, where’s the hurry buddy

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          11 months ago

          The average lifespan of a thread on Reddit/Lemmy style discussion boards is about 18-24 hours. If factored in a lot of international participants across polar timezones, it can go upto 30-36 hours atmost. That is a very fast exchange of messages when the comments start piling up.

          Slow exchange of messages is not what you are having here. A slow digital exchange would be something like email.