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ilzolende comments on Open thread, Mar. 2 - Mar. 8, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ilzolende 04 March 2015 02:00:09AM 0 points [-]

I asked for them because (a)I want to highlight long lines of characters in the LW comment interface and watch the Mac anti-aliasing overlap with itself, which looks cool, and (b)I don't want to just post a series of comments that have no valuable content but are just playing with the reply nesting system and posting repeating lines of characters and whatnot, because I don't want to get down voted into oblivion.

Alternating 0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O0O is visually appealing to me, and I want to see visually appealing things, so I asked to see more visually appealing things on the website. The request was made purely for selfish reasons.

Comment author: G0W51 04 March 2015 02:33:38AM 1 point [-]

I can see that. Still, 0s and Os take up more space than | and take a bit longer to type due to needing to alternate them.