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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by unethical_ban on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:47PM (#44867909)
I used to secretly assume any comment on reddit that uses direction quotation marks ” “ vs " " are bot or AI generated. But I believe that's just how iOS does it?

I wish a comment being completely vapid or trollish were indicator enough.

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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by MarkusQ on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:59PM (#44868061)
You could just reserve your rancor for posts that are completely vapid or trollish — and ignore the issue of how they were created.

It works for me.

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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by unethical_ban on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:13PM (#44868917)
Bot content deserves all the derision trolls do.

The best solution for me is to touch grass daily.

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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by whatamidoingyo on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:20PM (#44868341)
I have some blogs that make use of Markdown. " is automatically rendered as a ”. Likewise, "--" is rendered as an em dash.
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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by zappb on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:32PM (#44869129)
I assume those are people who write their comments in MS Word and copy the text with its smart quotes.
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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by vincent-manis on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:39PM (#44869213)
Sorry, I wouldn't be caught dead using Word. I use quotation marks because that is the correct punctuation.
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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by maratc on Monday August 11, 2025 @04:59PM (#44869399)
> that's just how iOS does it?

MacOS, too.

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Re:Why the em dash is attracting unfair suspicion by cwillu on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @12:37AM (#44872464)
On the osx keyboard layout (which you can use under linux):

    “ < altgr + [
    ” < altgr + ]
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