# Allow me to disable emojis in topic titles
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [25.Декабрь.2017 22:10:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747 "2017-12-25T22:10:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Seth\_Godin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Seth_Godin)
#### Post date: [25.Декабрь.2017 22:10:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747/1 "2017-12-25T22:10:16Z")
I’d love a global switch that says,
“no emojis in subject lines”
it can just be forward moving, leaving the existing posts as is…
the problem is escalation. One leads to five leads to a mess.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [25.Декабрь.2017 22:47:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747/2 "2017-12-25T22:47:44Z")
This is somewhat complicated cause there are 2 ways of adding emojis
`:smile: this is a topic`
and
`😊 this is a topic`
I would be open though to adding a site setting here for “max\_emojis\_in\_title” which applies to both formats.
I think 1 emoji is probably OK 100, less awesome.
That said, isn’t this a moderation issue to a degree?
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### Author:  [@Johani](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Johani)
#### Post date: [26.Декабрь.2017 03:52:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747/3 "2017-12-26T03:52:25Z")
**Temporary** retroactive workaround
```plaintext
.notification a .emoji,
.notifications a .emoji,
.stream-topic-details .title .emoji,
.post-links-container .emoji,
a.title .emoji,
.title-wrapper .emoji {
display: none;
}
```
I’m bound to have missed some things here or there, but I believe this covers most things.
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### Author:  [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [26.Декабрь.2017 14:59:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747/4 "2017-12-26T14:59:56Z")
Doesn’t affect the `` or the URL, both of which are important to SEO.
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [27.Декабрь.2017 04:20:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747/5 "2017-12-27T04:20:26Z")
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There is this discussion which my be relevant:
> [@thinking dont put emoji name in topic slugs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/thinking-dont-put-emoji-name-in-topic-slugs/76595):
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> I think emoji names should not appear in the url. What do you think? thinking
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [27.Декабрь.2017 04:26:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747/6 "2017-12-27T04:26:06Z")
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Yes, was split from there🐣
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### Author:  [@Drew\_Warwick](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Drew_Warwick)
#### Post date: [01.Январь.2018 02:04:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747/7 "2018-01-01T02:04:41Z")
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> [@sam](#):
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> That said, isn’t this a moderation issue to a degree?
I find that, when possible, prevention is better than reactive measures. Our Discourse forum has community guides, and we PM users with tips/suggestions/etc. Once we PM someone, we rarely have issues with them repeating that mistake, so our education is 👌. Despite that, we constantly have to deal with the same issues because new users are added to the forum and make the mistake for the first time.
This is not pleasant on moderation or anyone reading the forum. You could argue that we could improve our “welcome to the forums”, but if we added every nitpick to that, it’d become a gargantuan word wall that nobody would want to read. A much better solution for things like these is to prevent them in the first place – it’s not feasible to communicate all of them to new users, and it only worsens their first impressions of the forum.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [01.Январь.2018 02:59:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747/8 "2018-01-01T02:59:13Z")
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I support a one emoji per topic title limit by default. Same reason we don’t allow titles that
> LOOK LIKE THIS!!!
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [01.Январь.2018 04:32:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747/10 "2018-01-01T04:32:33Z")
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But then we can’t do:
Should we use 👍 or ❤ for Like?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [01.Январь.2018 22:00:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747/11 "2018-01-01T22:00:45Z")
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> [@schungx](#):
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> Should we use 👍 or ❤ for Like?
One could quite easily argue this is too much by default:
> Should we use thumbs up or heart for like?
Seems fine for me as a title and is probably safer when it comes to search cause `+1` is not something you would search on.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [17.Февраль.2018 12:29:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747/16 "2018-02-17T12:29:24Z")
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PR here:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5604](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/5604)
`max_emojis_in_title` defaults to `2`. Setting it to `0` will disable emojis in topic titles.
EDIT: PR is now merged.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [27.Февраль.2018 12:30:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-me-to-disable-emojis-in-topic-titles/76747/19 "2018-02-27T12:30:02Z")
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