Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4

Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by ScottBurson on Sunday March 13, 2016 @04:54PM (#11279290)

"People" don't do it; HN does it. Indented lines in a post are always monospaced, on the assumption, I suppose, that they're likely to be code examples. There's no way to turn this off AFAIK.

And no, HN does not use Markdown.

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by SilasX on Sunday March 13, 2016 @07:24PM (#11279929)

I know the formatting system. My question is why the users are formatting their text (e.g. with 4 places leading each line) *suc that HN renders it as monospace, which then forces a sideways scroll on mobile and small screens. That seems to make it harder to read for some with no corresponding upside.

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by ScottBurson on Sunday March 13, 2016 @11:41PM (#11280914)

Oh. Well, I think they just don't realize that HN will monospace it.

I agree with you, it's annoying.

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by SilasX on Monday March 14, 2016 @01:02PM (#11283935)

They don't realize it even after seeing their post go live? And seeing what other people's monotype quotes look like?

I never like to assume malice, but ...

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by maxerickson on Sunday March 13, 2016 @05:06PM (#11279351)

The people indent the text (or fail to remove the leading white space when copying).

It isn't a huge time sink to wrap a paragraph in stars.

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