The great emoji debate

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Afternoon everyone,

So: emojis. We've had a few questions about these over the last few days. Some of you love them and some of you loathe them. The truth of the matter is that they came into being as a side-effect of a technical fix that we did; we didn't set out to introduce them (and in fact, didn't expect you to discover them quite as quickly as you did ). On the question of whether they stay or whether they go, it's really up to you lot. We can get rid of them again; equally, if you like having them, we're happy for them to stay. Over to you ...

a relative who*

The nail painting emoji looked like a crane dangling a box, to me.

MNHQ, I still won't like them in the New Year. Much classier to have your own set, doncha think?

Or maybe if we can't beat them we could join them. May I have a heart shaped dot for the i in reni and a swan shaped 2, please?

Oh blimey. They are escaping into thread titles now. WARNING there are a lot of emojis within the thread too. Plus some teeny squares.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2521905-Its-all-give-give-give-at-BUT-what-will-you-do-for-yourself

Adding a new column and furiously typing names into my mn spreadsheet.

Columns so far: GFs, trolls, socks and Emoj

I tend to be a bit over excitable. I tend to use the mn emojii a bit on the heavy side but the peppering of emojii all over the place is starting to make my teeth itch. And I am already sick of posts that look like this one. There has been an explosion of squares everywhere. I do wonder if HQ have got bored of the hassle of running the site and are deliberately trying to make it implode.

Agreed - it's ridiculous if not everyone can see them! And I can't see some of them, because also on a laptop.

Good point, Maryz, some threads must be full of blank posts.

They won't be blank though, they will have some highly informative black squares in.

I don't understand why some posts on some threads (not a reference to a specific thread - has often happened though) weren't deleted because the thread wouldn't have made sense any more.

But we can have squares & have no idea what the poster meant so the thread makes no sense.

Are we supposed to become cryptologists?

I think the way to kill the emojis is to ask for clarification every single time, like a broken record so it becomes pointless to use them.

When a poster has to write out "the first emoji was a smiling face with ruddy cheeks, the second was a turd, the third was a green heart and I meant to signify that this situation is embarrassing and also a bit shit but I am glad it is resolved now" it might make them think twice next time.

Nice idea *reni" but if the posters don't return to the thread it won't help.

Plus posters who do like them will ignore the requests anyway.

Am joining you in the gin.

reni even

Surely the heart and turd emojis will be in angst, fights and humour?

Surprisingly not in the ones I'm in.
I only do high brow boring/old fashioned threads, apparently.

Sparklingbrook
That Christmas thread was from the first days of available emojis. It doesn't count.

I can't see them on my phone. They aren't squares but they're just too small. So meh. I swerve any thread that's got too many on.

They're pretty juvenile but I suppose we want to make it easier for the puerile trolls

This might a be against the rules, but I just wanted to cheer some oldtimers up

Beesimo now comments at The Guardian and it's absolute gold:

profile.theguardian.com/user/id/13945998

I rather enjoyed the comment "I am not a bigot I am a PRUDE"