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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Those would be emojis not emoticons.

I miss emoticons. I am so done with emojis.

As to the subject you posted about color, that is crazy.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Those would be emojis not emoticons.

Thanks. I never knew the distinction between the two. These emojis are usually used as reactions in our company to indicate you read a post, are investigating, giving kudos, etc. We actually have an entire document in Confluence specifying which ones to use, for which reactions.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We actually have an entire document in Confluence specifying which ones to use, for which reactions

Well I guess that stops ambiguity. There was a discussion here about people taking emojis the wrong way. Get ahead of the problems I guess.

I stopped using thumbs up, and started using check marks to acknowledge its done or I know.

You should copy your work and put out a reference webpage. I don't think many businesses are as far ahead as you I would think.

[–] Bruncvik@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You are absolutely correct about the ambiguity and problematic emojis. The trigger issue was the usage of hearts as "kudos" reactions. That's where we use the thumbs-up emojis now.

The idea of a reference webpage is a good one, but with Slack allowing you to upload your own emojis (and us using some -- such as the Piccard facepalm and "modern solutions" meme), we'd have to be very careful to show only the default ones.

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