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Re:When your classmates threaten you with felony charges by xeromal on Monday August 28, 2023 @03:12PM (#37299052)
What's with the _ in your sentences?
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Re:When your classmates threaten you with felony charges by oidar on Monday August 28, 2023 @03:15PM (#37299093)
Not the GP, but that is a common way of bolding words between the underscores in markdown syntax.
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Re:When your classmates threaten you with felony charges by rictic on Monday August 28, 2023 @03:27PM (#37299224)
Ascii convention to emphasize text, similar to doing the same thing with asterisks. Markdown later used this syntax for italics and bold, which popularized it further.
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Re:When your classmates threaten you with felony charges by wpietri on Monday August 28, 2023 @03:19PM (#37299122)
They represent underlining.
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Re:When your classmates threaten you with felony charges by jjtheblunt on Monday August 28, 2023 @03:16PM (#37299104)
i think it's supposed to look like start and stop of underlines.
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