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Clippy comments on How best to show dying is bad - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: Zvi 08 March 2011 03:18PM

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Comment author: Clippy 08 March 2011 07:12:06PM *  1 point [-]

The point of numbering is to assign a unique, easily-generated identifier for each subsection of the text, and your comment is written in a way that uses numbering but defeats that purpose.

Comment author: JGWeissman 08 March 2011 07:17:15PM 4 points [-]

The apparently strange numbering is a result of quirky auto formatting that expects items in a numbered list not to be seperated by other paragraphs, not of how user:Armok_GoB intended the comment to look.

Comment author: Clippy 08 March 2011 08:36:22PM *  4 points [-]

Are there users that cannot see comments they have submitted? Or cannot edit them? Or cannot make numbers appear except through the markup system used for comments on this internet website? Is User:Armok_GoB a User of at least one of these types?

Comment author: Armok_GoB 08 March 2011 09:10:10PM 1 point [-]

Yes, although the problem causing this inability resides in the parts of the system residing downstream from the screen.