Seeing how many people add an emoji at the beginning of their title to make their post be understood at a glance (e.g. "🔥 NEW SN FEATURE IDEA..."), why not allow users to select an emoji and make that appear with more prominence
3 sats \ 0 replies \ @FatBear 22 Jun 2022
Only if you let me have a bear 🐻
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2 sats \ 2 replies \ @kilianbuhn 22 Jun 2022
⚡ I like the idea. It's like a pre step before introcing tags or subreddits.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @EnormousPony 22 Jun 2022
SN it's like hacker news, the concept of subreddit doesn't exists
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptocoin 23 Jun 2022
Incorrect. ~jobs is technically the first sub that was added.
Discussion on the next sub has been discussed. The reason there aren't numerous subs now is (from my understanding of it), adding subs may be subtractive instead of additive. Meaning separating content and discussion into subs too early may inhibit the growth like occurs now when the community mashes it all up in this one sub. Jobs was kind of a special purpose offshoot, for now.
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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @kr 22 Jun 2022
would this emoji that users select be shown on all their posts/comments?
kind of like a badge for identifying users?
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69 sats \ 0 replies \ @metamick14 OP 22 Jun 2022
I hadn't thought of that, but that's a good idea.
We introduced 'emoji badges' on Geyser in the Leaderboard tab: https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoin-for-fairness
But I was mainly thinking that this might help users navigate through content more easily on SN's main landing page.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 22 Jun 2022
How does the fire in your title make your post better understood? It certainly draws my attention if that's what you mean. Emojis drawing attention which could be good if a post is good but is certainly bad if a post is bad ... I feel like they are more likely to be abused ... unless we make them expensive.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @metamick14 OP 22 Jun 2022
IMO, currently it can be abused as well by helping one stand out over others.
But the added value is that it gives a one-glance-view of what to expect.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @EnormousPony 22 Jun 2022
Maybe only a set of specific emojis like a linked tweet/video or a AMA are necessary
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xtr 22 Jun 2022
@k00b had a comment about emojis in the title back in may #24733
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @metamick14 OP 22 Jun 2022
good find, @K00b is an emoji minimalist, I'm more of a maximalist.
But I agree that emojis are strong and applying a cost to them makes sense. You could then apply a boost with an emoji.
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