Ask PG: Are people getting more liberal with their downvotes?

Re:Ask PG: Are people getting more liberal with their downvo... by menloparkbum on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @01:27AM (#214624)

I downvoted you because I can't stand it when people use footnote notation in a posting that is only 1/5 of a page long.

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Re:Ask PG: Are people getting more liberal with their downvo... by gojomo on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @03:02AM (#214661)

URLs inline look crappy:

News.YC as yet has no syntax for linking from text as in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page#Li... Wikipedia] or [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode]BBCode[/url] or [Markdown](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown).

News.YC also doesn't follow the recommendation of appendix C of RFC3986 <http://www.rfc.net/rfc3986.html>; with regard to angle-brackets as URL-delimiters -- and it even inserted that stray semicolon.

Hence the footnotes even in tiny comments... they look nicer, not breaking the flow of the writing so much.

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Re:Ask PG: Are people getting more liberal with their downvo... by xenoterracide on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @03:13AM (#214669)

I hate foot notes period... unless their are links to them... and links back. They aren't so bad in books... (but still suck there) but in web pages they drive me nuts.

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Re:Ask PG: Are people getting more liberal with their downvo... by DTrejo on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @01:36AM (#214631)

It looks longer when you are in the tiny HN comment text box. I think he is excused.

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