Okay, I can see that. I guess that lies squarely in to-each-their-own territory. Me, personally, I don't mind some dadaism in my bug reports:
"There's a race condition in your implementation of pthreads (cake emoji). Bugs are dead. Thirty seven. So (walrus emoji). That causes your... You didn't release the semaphore. Semaphore aphorism smidgen genetic tictac tactic. The lock is dead. Lock. Locke? Deadlock. (cake emoji)"
You'd be surprised how often that happens at GitHub. Seriously, next time you wanna express excitement about something just drop a little :boom::camel::shipit:. Weirdly addictive and hilarious.
Also on a more serious note, emoji can seriously help when discussions start feeling more heated than they should. Adds a little levity so people know you're not being a dick. Really important when you're both remote and only see each other once or twice a year.
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Walrus pictures, to me, feel like fake-fun, not a crack in the facade of fake-seriousness.
Okay, I can see that. I guess that lies squarely in to-each-their-own territory. Me, personally, I don't mind some dadaism in my bug reports:
"There's a race condition in your implementation of pthreads (cake emoji). Bugs are dead. Thirty seven. So (walrus emoji). That causes your... You didn't release the semaphore. Semaphore aphorism smidgen genetic tictac tactic. The lock is dead. Lock. Locke? Deadlock. (cake emoji)"
Just kidding, that'd be too cruel.
You'd be surprised how often that happens at GitHub. Seriously, next time you wanna express excitement about something just drop a little :boom::camel::shipit:. Weirdly addictive and hilarious.
Also on a more serious note, emoji can seriously help when discussions start feeling more heated than they should. Adds a little levity so people know you're not being a dick. Really important when you're both remote and only see each other once or twice a year.
Ah... the old "I'm not being a dick... I used a smiley" defense. :)