I wonder if future archeologists will endlessly ponder the meaning of emoji similar to the way we in the current age try to understand ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. perhaps a new age Rosetta stone should be carved
ancient hieroglyphics also depict common objects and expressions. their combinations carry even more meaning. the understanding of an eggplant, a thumbs up, or even a smile could be drastically different in 5000 years
How does that affect the quality of the article in any way? It's not like they're expressing through emoji, they're just there as bullet points
I get that emoji get a lot of hate on reddit since emoji only comments were low effort and that's justified
No emoji at all in any form, that's just a stupid ask
Practically, you can get browser extensions that remove the emojis. The fact that brightly colored symbol blocks interrupt flow will not change as the culture changes because saturation = attention, contrast = attention and uniqueness = attention are all fundamental principles of perception.
In the same way if there were using a purple script font. It's just unnecessary decoration and I'll gladly pass even though the content is good (usually it's not).
Scribd has something like that, but it just renders the PowerPoint into a PDF and lets you scroll through that. Looks awful.
Something that really did translate a slide show into a blog post in a semi-intelligent manner would have value.
Agreed. This trendy new use of emojis everywhere, even in somewhat serious articles is quite off putting. It just seems juvenile and doenst add any substance or information to the content.
I'm way old, and I didn't mind the emojis, and I'm not a big user--I write words more often than use an equivalent emoji in Slack. OTOH, I 'read' :+1: (the actual sequence of chars) as 'like' and it isn't disruptive either.
