thomblake comments on Rationality Quotes - September 2009 - Less Wrong

2 Post author: thomblake 01 September 2009 03:06PM

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Comment author: thomblake 02 September 2009 12:05:14AM *  0 points [-]

Just backslash escape them - type it like this: Eliezer\_Yudkowsky

ETA: this is an amusing example of "do as I say, not as I do". What I actually typed looked like this: Eliezer\\\_Yudkowsky

Comment author: SilasBarta 02 September 2009 03:30:28AM 0 points [-]

I think you misunderstand the problem. I know I can override the formatting. It's just that if I did so, it would invalidate my claim that I have software that lets me call up forum screen names with hotkeys, and replaces the spaces with underscores in forums that allow spaces in names.

In other words, people would know I was needlessly typing out their whole screen name and adding underscores, and it wasn't just some glitchy software.