Ask HN: Why are emoji banned on HN?

3 pointsby jai_about 4 years ago

It seems that emoji (and possibly other Unicode text) will be automatically removed from submission and comment text.<p>Is there a reason for this?

2 comments

gtirloniabout 4 years ago

You can read more about that here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26662154" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26662154</a>

Pick-A-Hill2019about 4 years ago

In addition to what gtirloni said ..... Dan G (hn@ycombinator.com) is a reasonable fellow that is always happy to answer these eternal 'Why doesn't HN do xyz' type questions.<p>I would suggest that going that route is better than polluting the HN submission queue with these and similar ‘Eternal September’ ask HN type postings.<p>Karma be damned, It needed to be said.