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I think people π find them more obnoxious π± than informative, and rate π― opinions higher than π emotional reactions, because emotions are π€ cheap and add nothing to a constructive ποΈ discussion
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.
Emotional Italians will disagree with you.
I'm dating one, and she disagrees ("Miiiiiii...")
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 π so for the comical effect, why not δΉβ (β Β β β°Ν‘β Β β ΔΉΜ―β Β β β°Ν‘β Β β )β Β β γ
I mean, if the words are still there its literally nothing else left but personal tastes. It adds, not subtracts, even if people dislike it. The disliker certainly isnt realesed from their obligation to answer the question if they so crave being heard