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Gitlab has "merge requests" the comment you're replying was trying to point out an error in an annoying way

i tried to add a lil laughing emoji to indicate that my comment was in jest but apparently those get stripped out of comments? my bad.

Yeah HN doesn't want people to be _too_ expressive.

:D doesn’t get stripped

Not even an error frankly, MR, PR, change request, patch set, personally don't care what you call it, it's the same thing.