Why don't people use emojiis or their substitute in this place? :)
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I'm not sure if the unicode ones work?
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I'm not sure if the unicode ones work?
edits: ஐ
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But Wikipedia says it was a ligature of two letters ("Ь" and "I"), which later changed their values: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yery#Origin
Not sure what the 'Æ' could stand in for though
The other two are their own vowels, and they used to be rendered in English as "oe" and "ue". It's not clear to me why we decided that it was better to write "Gödel" as "Godel" than as "Goedel".
And no, the Unicode ones won't work, the code strips them out. You'll have plain text and be happy with it.
Tells a lot about tech twitter.
And let's be fair, HN complains obsessively about the rest of the web, and especially social media, all the time. It just can't get as good as it gives.
Anyhow, if people get so invested into HN that they feel the need to vent about it, the problem might not be HN.
We can't accuse someone of not having read the article, despite two of the biggest problems this community has regarding the quality of conversation being people only commenting on the title, and people using the title as a springboard for whatever polemic it triggers in them.
We can't be "snarky" or "sneer" about the community. Any direct criticism of the community comes off as snark.
Meta commentary is frowned upon for being unsubstantive. All criticism of the community is meta commentary by definition.
>Anyhow, if people get so invested into HN that they feel the need to vent about it, the problem might not be HN.
And then again, the problem might be HN. Getting invested in a community and being disappointed in its faults isn't a problem.
In one of my episodes of obsessive procrastination, I once used Twitter search to list tweets mentioning the phrase "orange site", and spent a couple hours reading through ~3 years of history. Most of the critical ones reflect very badly on the people tweeting.
> The guidelines don't allow complaining about or criticizing the community here,
This is not the case. Nothing in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html says that.
> and the mods tend to take any such criticisms personally, even if they agree with them.
Citation needed. Can't think of a single example.
> Certain cultural pathologies are left to fester in the name of maintaining civility and high "signal to noise," so people have to vent their frustrations with this place elsewhere.
Personal opinion, and this may be a controversial view, but I feel that pathologies mostly start when civility and high SNR are being abandoned.
It's not exactly that. HN has plenty of humor (and lord knows it's the easiest way to rack up karma, if you care about such things) - you just have to put some effort into it.
"Show HN" attracts criticism mostly because the opposite of that would be just patting someone on their back, which is boring and benefits neither the submission author, nor the community. Good, constructive criticism gives everyone a chance to improve. Bad criticism tends to get down-voted and flagged pretty quickly.
> And no, the Unicode ones won't work, the code strips them out. You'll have plain text and be happy with it.
Unicode does work. Just not all of it. If you think some characters currently filtered out should be available on HN, you can always ask 'dang to remove them from the filter (via mail, hn@ycombinator.com). I've done that in the past.
That said, it's important to remember why many Unicode characters are blocked: it's because of spam. There's a large population of users who want to use Unicode characters as cheap visual tricks, to make the titles or comments stand out more. This goes directly against the kind of culture that makes HN the place it is.
I think the easiest way to rack up karma is to search existing comment threads for links, and then submit those links.
Also as a means of trying to fool keyword-based anti-spam filters. I've seen entire words spelled out in alternate Unicode characters that look like the characters of the actual word, but are not the actual letters they look like visually. Computers, being inherently "dumb machines" totally overlook such words if they're not actively blocked at some level by the filter (easy way is to block the actual characters these spammers use, but of course this can then cause problems for those who actually use those characters properly; Yay, spammers. Ruining the Internet for everyone).
I mean, what about all the research on how some people who chronically do not find anything funny?
At first it got me thinking, but this is a place where horrible humans like Peter Thiel are worshipped, so yeah - it's not me.