wedrifid comments on The bias shield - Less Wrong

18 Post author: PhilGoetz 31 December 2011 05:44PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 31 December 2011 05:55:58PM 0 points [-]

It is an extremely annoying bug. It shows up not just with italicized words, but sometimes with words written in bold and most damning of all, links.

A bug that affects italicized words also affects words written in bold. Inconceivable!

Comment author: CharlieSheen 31 December 2011 06:11:54PM *  4 points [-]

It is an extremely annoying bug. It shows up not just with italicized words, but sometimes with words written in bold and most damning of all, links.

Clearly he meant written in blood. Come on guys, if we are going to be serious about this doomsday cult thing we need to stop jumping each other because of typos, so chill wedrifid.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 December 2011 06:05:43PM *  3 points [-]

Well of course it does, but my brain perceives these as separate separate insults to my weak determination to work through trivial inconveniences! In any case I don't share Eliezer's love for italics, but not being able to spam my articles with a dozen links, is plain unforgivable.

Tis is the season to air grievances after all. :P

Comment author: wedrifid 31 December 2011 06:11:41PM 4 points [-]

but not being able to spam my articles with a dozen links, is plain unforgivable.

Definitely! I love link spam. It formalizes how we use phrases as references to existing concepts and saves on google searches!

Comment author: arundelo 31 December 2011 06:30:11PM 1 point [-]

It may help to think of selecting pieces of text and clicking buttons to turn them into links as the inconvenient part. On the rare occasions when I've made top-level posts, I've edited the HTML source directly (in a real text editor). Happy Festivus!