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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by AnimalMuppet on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:27PM (#16387792)
The reason HN does indented text that way is for code. People on HN post code snippets as a fairly regular thing, and having code snippets word wrap (or eat white space) is really confusing.

The problem isn't that HN does that with leading space. The problem is that people use leading space for quotations, which isn't what it's for.

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Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking by thomastjeffery on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:46PM (#16388471)
The problem is that there is no markup for quotes, so people try to fill the void with an indent, which gives the most obvious difference to text.
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