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.
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.
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 
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 
What I did was listen to both sides of the argument and came up with a compromise that is already in place.
Yes, that’s part of the compromise. You know, a solution for both sides, not just yours.
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.
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.
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 
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.
You may not like it but it is a compromise. Everybody gets something.
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.
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.
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.
I mean we have someone confusing a like button with an emoji.
“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.”
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.