I often like to use pure text and symbols over emojis. So, :) rather than but the former is automatically coverted to the latter. I’ve tried \:) but that still gets me the emoji.
I read this can be changed from admin side, can we have this changed?
Its a site-wide setting unfortunately, disabling would turn off everyone auto convert emoji. This feature was requested at Discourse but had low votes:
but the former is automatically coverted to the latter. I’ve tried