On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 04:26:29PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > Proposed policy: Let's just avoid emoticon in the website > > Hi, > > Le 03/09/2011 14:44, Luca Capello a écrit : > > > As I wrote before, I think there should be a policy about emoticons, > > otherwise this discussion will happen again and again. FWIW, I agree > > with you, i.e. I do not see the point in having emoticons on *official* > > pages, which should stay as neutral as possible. > > I believe that emoticon can be suitable in personal mail, (e.g. to make > sure that no reader will take a joke as an attack), but the official > Debian website (official communication actually) should avoid them. I agree. Emoticons have no place in formal writing, which I think inclues the Debian website alongside other 'offical' texts. -- Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51
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