# Showing thanks on the Dope **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 15, 2021, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912 "2021-03-15T04:36:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/141 "2021-03-22T02:07:50Z")
I own several apple products, and like them. But I do hate the intentional incompatibility, and I’m moving away from Apple. The laptop I’m typing on is the first serious laptop I’ve ever bought that runs Windows. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/142 "2021-03-22T02:10:31Z")
> [@codinghorror](#): > > Well, I can tell you the far right one is well known, and pretty much looks like what it is: hug. 🤗 Thanks. But IS there a way to look up a cryptic emoji, short of scanning the entire list? And that one looks happy, but honestly, it looks more like someone waving their hands than like a hug, at least to me. It’s funny, because I hang with people who use all sorts of emoji, but I don’t think I’ve run into that one before. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/143 "2021-03-22T02:21:36Z")
Agreed. I’ve seen that one many times. I know it connotes something happy, not sad. It would never occur to me that it represents a hug. Emojis suck. (or at least the more obscure ones do. Use your words people 😉 ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/144 "2021-03-22T02:30:47Z")
I love emojis! Some of my favorites are 😃 🤣 😉 🤔 🙄 😢 🤷‍♀️ 👍 and 🤬 But I hadn’t seen or used those two. And I’m not sure what I’d use 🎊 for. I have used 🥳 ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/145 "2021-03-22T04:48:29Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > B: You get to decide what works for _both_ sides? What I did was listen to both sides of the argument and came up with a compromise that is already in place. > [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > C: Anything that results in a post being made is by definition not the kind of button that’s being asked for. Yes, that’s part of the compromise. You know, a solution for both sides, not just yours. > [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > He’s referring to the thumbs-up emoji, which is obviously not a like button. It serves the same purpose. Remember compromise, both sides get a say. Nobody will be confused if you use a plus 1 instead of a like button. They will know what you mean. If you absolutely must have a button that says like on it, I can’t help you out, hence a compromise that will work for both sides. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/146 "2021-03-22T05:25:23Z")
WTF? No one wants to see a thread with 50 people quoting the same post and adding “+1.” It is so funny how upset Boomers get when something tries to drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century. ---
**Author:** ![Enjoy\_Slurm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enjoy_slurm/32/3937_2.png) [@Enjoy\_Slurm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enjoy_Slurm)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/147 "2021-03-22T05:36:35Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Thanks. But IS there a way to look up a cryptic emoji, short of scanning the entire list? In this thread, I haven’t tried anywhere else, but if you mouse over the emoji it shows you the name of it. Like this is not a smiley face, but a 🌝 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/148 "2021-03-22T05:38:02Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > If you absolutely must have a button that says like on it, I can’t help you out, hence a compromise that will work for both sides. You can’t help because you are not in a position of authority, not because anyone is making an unreasonable request. Even if you were in the place to offer a compromise (you aren’t), “here is a thing which already exists and should be good enough” is not a compromise. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/149 "2021-03-22T05:49:31Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > “here is a thing which already exists and should be good enough” is not a compromise. You may not like it but it is a compromise. Everybody gets something. > [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > WTF? No one wants to see a thread with 50 people quoting the same post and adding “+1.” > > It is so funny how upset Boomers get when something tries to drag them kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Where have you ever seen a thread that had multiple thumbs up on it? This option has been here all the time, very few people bother to use it. Do you really think you are gonna see 50 thumbs up posts? I’m not a boomer, nor am I upset. You are the one calling people luddites and yelling WTF. I simply offered an easy to implement compromise but apparently some people, like you, need to get everything they want or they freak out. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/150 "2021-03-22T07:04:24Z")
> [@Enjoy\_Slurm](#): > > > [@puzzlegal](#): > > > > Thanks. But IS there a way to look up a cryptic emoji, short of scanning the entire list? > > In this thread, I haven’t tried anywhere else, but if you mouse over the emoji it shows you the name of it. Like this is not a smiley face, but a 🌝 Ah. I was using a laptop with a touchscreen, so mouse over is disabled. I did try quoting the post to see the text, and to my surprise, it showed up as an emoji, not as text with colons. Interestingly, now that I’m using my phone, it’s showing me the text in the quote box. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/151 "2021-03-22T14:59:24Z")
> [@mordecaiB](#): > > Where have you ever seen a thread that had multiple thumbs up on it? This option has been here all the time, very few people bother to use it. Do you really think you are gonna see 50 thumbs up posts? That’s the whole point why people want a Like button. I really don’t understand what is so bothersome about that. It’s really rather amusing. People here like to claim that this board has the “smartest and best” posters on the internet!!1 but if even the _tiniest_ change were to be implemented to give those same “smartest and brightest” posters any kind of agency, they’ll all suddenly turn into idiotic Youtube commenters who only do things for the Likes and have flashing sparkly avatars and OMG the sky is falling, waaaaaaaahhhhhh! Every other board I read has a like system and not a single one has had any of the issues people like to claim will happen here. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/152 "2021-03-22T15:57:59Z")
I mean we have someone confusing a like button with an emoji. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/153 "2021-03-22T16:04:55Z")
“Get in the car, we’re getting dinner.” “Great! I’d like a hamburger.” “Let’s go to Taco Bell.” “But… I said I’d prefer a hamburger.” “You can get a taco with meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomato. That’s basically a burger.” “…no it isn’t.” “Look, we’re compromising. We both get something we want - I get a taco and you get a burger.” “I don’t think any of those words mean what you think those words mean.” ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/154 "2021-03-22T18:42:41Z")
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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912/155 "2021-03-22T18:42:59Z")
There are those that want a like button and those who don’t. Clearly this is never going to come to any sort of consensus. And since many posts are getting too snippy for ATMB, I think it’s best to close this. Thread closed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/showing-thanks-on-the-dope/937912.md?page=7)