As our Slack channels tend to be fairly busy, many team members will provide quick responses or feedback to slack messages with an emoji.
These are not always clear, and have a tendency to become in-jokes which can be confusing for new starters or people who spend more time on teams.
Below is a “glossary” of common slack responses reflecting the culture of our team:
Emoji | Meaning or Intent |
|---|---|
| I agree / yes / looks good |
| I disagree / no / don’t like it |
👌 | OK / Perfect |
 | I don’t know about this / I don’t know what to do about this |
✅ | This is correct / This is done |
👀 | I’m actively looking at this |
⏲️ 🕐 or similar | I’ll look at this later |
🌮 or any other form of taco also   Or any other kind of parrot | Great Job! / This is fantastic! / Kudos |
🐔 | The dreaded chicken hat - a mistake was made (usually affecting production) - intended to be a light hearted “Mea Culpa” |
🎓 | I learned something from this |
🙈 | Light hearted “this is so bad I don’t want to think about it” |
| Light hearted “don’t ask me” / “Do not know about this” / “Do not want to be involved” |
😱 | This is terrible! |
🚀 | “Awesome” - “This is moving the team forwards” - “This is going abvoe and beyond” |
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