Timeline for Quoted text inline with the rest using code tags is bad. Why?
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| May 5, 2016 at 12:33 | comment | added | Oriol | Guillemets are another possibility: «This». I like them for long quotes in comments because they are more visible than "". | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 17:29 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Cypher: shrug I'm sure you wouldn't wRITE wORDS lIKE tHIS, bECAUSE it is not the correct way to write English sentences. What I said in my answer is no different. It doesn't mean I'm being compulsive; it means I have eyes and I am capable of appreciating professional neatness in written communication. when someone is making SO posts "messy" then, yes, it bothers me personally. I wouldn't answer anything on meta that didn't bother me personally; who would? | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 17:02 | comment | added | Cypher | Sorry, don't take offense. I don't take Meta votes too seriously (agree/disagree sort of thing). When reading your answer, the message conveyed to me was that it's not "correct" and therefore invokes compulsive behaviors. With statements like "OCD hurt and my edit trigger finger twitch", "without getting a headache", and "shouldn't be forced on me", my impression is that the poster's behavior bothers you personally. That to me, isn't exactly a valid reason for anything. However, your last paragraph (about future rendering) is spot on. I agree in principal, just not on the main points written. | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 16:44 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Cypher: You don't have to be "obsessive" to use the correct formatting for the task. Can't believe you downvoted me on that principle. I take it you've never published any document, then? | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 16:43 | comment | added | Cypher | Not all of us are so obsessive. | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 16:38 | history | edited | Lightness Races in Orbit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 3, 2014 at 13:27 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @yuvi: I'm too hungover to be angry today | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 13:20 | vote | accept | yuvi | ||
| Jul 3, 2014 at 13:20 | comment | added | yuvi | Anyway, I'm marking your answer as correct. I think I'll get used to using italics-in-parenthesis. You raise similar points to those of @Boltclock, only his answer seems kinda angry. Also I think your answer expresses things more clearly (but it's mostly the anger thing). | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 13:15 | comment | added | yuvi | what? It's not bad. I can quit any time I want | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 13:10 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @yuvi: I'm sorry to hear that. | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 13:05 | comment | added | yuvi |
It will probably won't be abused more than backticks (which are being abused partly because they're so easy and short. <q> would require an actual effort. (and yes, it's an effort! I'm a web developer. For me, if I need to do anything more than tagname+tab it's an effort (that, or I'm using a bad editor)));
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| Jul 3, 2014 at 12:58 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit |
@yuvi: That would be a good feature, though I can also see that being horribly abused. Sometimes the good old fashioned " is what you want; no need for garish colours, backgrounds and bolds emblazoned everywhere.
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| Jul 3, 2014 at 12:57 | comment | added | Frédéric Hamidi | OCD is hardly an argument (or I would have a few hundred feature requests that I could insist on being implemented on that basis). You say you make an exception for comments because they're inherently single-line, but to me putting quotations in their own block is not always the right solution, so I "abuse" inline code in the same way as in comments. Of course, I'd love to have an "inline quote" feature, and would use it exclusively if it's introduced someday. | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 12:54 | comment | added | yuvi | I agree that backticks are not the correct tool for the job, but I still feel like I want similarly-styled inline-quotes (i.e. looks the same but no fixed-width to not upset your trigger finger =P ). I dunno, quoted italics don't look like quote blocks, it feels inconsistent and weird for me. Perhaps it's just me :-) | |
| Jul 3, 2014 at 12:47 | history | answered | Lightness Races in Orbit | CC BY-SA 3.0 |