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Why are you adding () after "like"? Havent seen that convention before, so I am unaware of the meaning.

There may have been an emoji or Unicode character between the parens that was stripped by HN.

correct, it was a "thumbs up" emoji

That does make quite a lot of sense.

I was assuming there's a trademark symbol ™ that had been stripped by HN. But since I've managed to post one, I'm apparently wrong!