🌊 Kris using emoji here kind of breaks the spirit of the site but also

Pat I kinda agree with this. I'd prefer no emojis but hey, I could go make my own website.

🗿 Simohamed I think they work well for distinguishing users at a glance. HN suffers from this where you often have to read a user's username to know if they're OP.

Pat For that,, some color/hash could be introduced. Reminds me of message boards.