I’m a heavy emoji user, texting is such a poor medium for communication, many times people get the wrong message, but with an emoji you’ll get an idea of the face I’m making, so less chance of misunderstanding
I noticed that every time I add an emoji to a comment it gets downvoted, so I tested my theory, wrote a comment without an emoji, got upvotes, went back and added an emoji, got downvotes…
On Reddit people use emojis a lot, on Lemmy I NEVER saw anyone use emojis, my account is new but still for the time I spent here, I never saw the use of emojis
So, is it just me, have you noticed this small detail ? and do you miss emojis the way I do ? 😭
Ignore all votes on your comments and do what you want. Don’t let a bunch of anonymous folks on the Internet change the way you communicate.
It’s not about votes at all, that was just a performance indicator to test my theory
It’s just so happens comments with emojis get downvoted, even if they provide value
I think it’s funny you have to keep explaining this.
People have such a strong reaction to votes mattering that they’ve forgotten it does actually measure something.