jcartw's comments

On: Ask HN: Neutral Emoji for Acknowledgement

[jcartw]

> You do have to conform to the communication norms of whatever group you're communicating with.

That's an excellent point. It does make sense to observe the way certain common forms of acknowledgement are being used within different context to understand the way that the group interprets them.

A thumbs-up can be used in a dismissive way at times. As one example, see the Giant Thumb Guy meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/giant-thumb-guy.

On: Ask HN: Neutral Emoji for Acknowledgement

[jcartw]

Do you have any type of text responses that you feel are ambiguous in terms of if there's any meaning behind them other than an ACK?

[pavel_lishin → jcartw]

I'm not sure if you mean; sometimes people will write a response that makes me wonder if they understood what I meant, but then I'll ask to clarify.

And sometimes "ok" can be ambiguous, too, I guess - depending on contxt.