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Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by dcormier »

bXVsbGVy wrote: post #27
JellyBeanThief wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right. Because the system is to have woman, man, and neutral for everything. Saves debate for more important things.

My issue is with those emojis is that they don't meet a few of their own criteria for a new emoji to be accepted. Their guideline: https://unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#selection_factors_i... For instance, they suggest using "elephant" to evaluate the usage: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all_2008&gprop...

The submission guidelines have changed over time. I would assume that, at the time, the proposals _did_ meet the guidelines.

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by batiudrami »

pfp wrote: post #7

I guess I should feel relieved that I don't at least have my work discussions littered with these ones. But they're not too different from the set of infantilizing pictograms that did make their way into the standard & that grown-ups are now expected to deal with.

I think they're nice and help to add tone and context in an increasingly online workplace.

The world is better because the director of my billion dollar project is able to heart react in the chat, not worse.

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by donatj »

I feel like the entire emoji block should be made part of the supplementary/private use or similar. Leave what gets implemented up to Microsoft/ Apple/ Google to agree on.

It's fallen completely out of scope of unicode's purpose of documenting used symbols and into a sort of editorialized control of what can cannot be said.

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by skissane »

pyuser583 wrote: post #46

Would have been nice if they did US state flags.

The US is far from the only country in which states/provinces/regions/etc have their own flags. Australia's six states (and its two self-governing mainland territories) each have their own flag. Canada's ten provinces and three territories have flags too. Mexico has 31 states, but only 7 have official flags. Germany has 16 states, all of which have a flag. Austria has 9 states, which all have flags. Switzerland has 26 cantons, all of which have flags too. The list goes on and on. Doing it for just one country is biased, but doing it for all is such a gigantic project, probably biting off more than anyone could chew.

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by joshspankit »

donatj wrote: post #55

I feel like the entire emoji block should be made part of the supplementary/private use or similar. Leave what gets implemented up to Microsoft/ Apple/ Google to agree on. It's fallen completely out of scope of unicode's purpose of documenting used symbols and into a sort of editorialized control of what can cannot be said.

And also in to a way for companies to encourage users to upgrade their OS

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by jpk »

kilroy123 wrote: post #17
pfp wrote: post #7

I guess I should feel relieved that I don't at least have my work discussions littered with these ones. But they're not too different from the set of infantilizing pictograms that did make their way into the standard & that grown-ups are now expected to deal with.

Really? We use slack and all staff has access to add new emojis. You can just imagine how that would turn out...

Fun fact: The Adobe enterprise slack workspace is not only open to everyone to add emojis, but (AFAIK) every slack-using company that Adobe has ever acquired has had their slack workspace subsumed into the Adobe one, which includes bringing in all of the acquiree's emojis. :-)

Re: Rejected emoji proposals

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Post by joshspankit »

Swizec wrote: post #47
miiiiiike wrote: post #13

I like the bloated balloon one and a period/pre-period emojis would be good. A few women in my life (managers/directors/executives) are terrified to talk about their periods because it could be used against them. I'm going to risk turning this into one of those "Normalize " tweets.. But cramps, bloating, irritability, pain, any number of other things. I want a status emoji for headaches and "didn't sleep well". Somet…

I would love a “Hi I’ve been in meetings for 5 hours and forgot to eat” emoji. But instead I have to be double extra cautious I don’t come off as short or mean when people have boneheaded ideas.

Would you be open to a generic “hangry” emoji?
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