Richard Stallman on his experience in Cuba

Re:Richard Stallman on his experience in Cuba by Hexstream on Friday February 13, 2009 @12:42PM (#480106)

"Well, they were probably a bit surprised, because they never thought about these things in these terms. But now I'm in touch with somebody who has converted one youth club to use free software, and he's now talking with the people who run the other youth clubs in his region, trying to convert them. So something's finally getting done."

Notice the religious terminology. The Church of Emacs, eh.

edit: Is it possible to use bold here?

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Re:Richard Stallman on his experience in Cuba by blasdel on Friday February 13, 2009 @07:24PM (#480684)

No, you no can has bold.

Italics are allowed because they allow you to annotate emphasis without making the text stand out more than normal -- you only notice it inline. Allowing bold would lead to asshats writing like Jeff Atwood.

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Re:Richard Stallman on his experience in Cuba by Hexstream on Saturday February 14, 2009 @12:50PM (#481264)

I wouldn't mind if there was a limit (maybe as few as 3) on the number of words you can make bold. Or a percentage of your post, or something. Now that I think about it the same solution could be used to support blockquote (ex: max 2 blockquotes in a post + other restrictions). After all the argument against implementing it was that excessive use of quoting is often bad style.

I think it's pretty ridiculous not to support useful features just because 1% of people might misuse it.

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