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HN bans most emoji. That's pretty annoying on a post like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17508962

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19482991



> HN bans most emoji. That's pretty annoying on a post like this.

Not just "emoji" either, it bans random codepoints it doesn't consider "textual" enough and rather than tell you they're just removed from the comment when submitting leaving you to find out your comment is completely broken.

It's infuriating.




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