Titles can't have emoji!

[Lynx]

The star in the title was indeed pretty cheeky, as if to promote it above all the rest. Shameful abuse of emojis!

@moeller0

Well, we all are typically bad in reading the correct intent of casually written prose (there is a reason why writers typically labor a lot about their texts before offering them to the public). So using signals to convey the normal gamut of non-verbal modes of communication we all use in direct conversations to help avoid or post-hoc clear up misunderstandings. Emojis for all their yuck-factor are a convenient short hand to add intent markers to forum/email discussions and hence have value IMHO. Titles however should be composed with enough care to not needing such clutches (outside of the "classical" letter and punctuation compounds).

Well stated. I think not all emojis are the same; smileys are perhaps more unexceptionable, but then things like this:

@MangoMan

really take the biscuit. Also I noticed this:

p.s. I thought this was all just light hearted and fun, but from later posts it looks like perhaps not. So I'll use an emoji myself here: . And maybe also bow out.