Another code is double tildes: ~~strikethrough~~ gives strikethrough.
Single tildes don’t do anything interesting: ~strikethrough~.
The <del> tags go with the <ins> tags and are supposed to be used to represent revisions between an original and a modified text. How the inserted or deleted text is highlighted depends totally on which theme the reader has configured. For some it’s a pink/red background, for others it’s something completely different.
My own technique and advice is to use the <ins> <del> tags for what they’re for: genuine mark-up of revised text. And use plain strikethrough for the editorial word choice gamesmanship wisdom.
Oh, Michael Jackson! Now I get it. I saw ‘Micheal Jackson’ in the post there and I was all confused. Glad somebody took initiative and cleared this up for me.
To be sure, there are graphs and diagrams that were built strictly to be misleading. Likewise, there are graphs and diagrams that, while not intended to be anything but accurate and elucidating, were put together by someone who lacked knowledge or a viewpoint that needed to also be illustrated to get a full and proper view on the matter.
But, there are far more cases where someone puts together a report, notes the gaps and limitations, puts up the error bars in their charts, etc. and readers ignore all of that and make bizarre, loose, and extreme decisions based on what was said despite a clear and forcefully stated image of murk and mud.
I’d go 20% the first, 80% the latter in every day life.
In general, I’d say that you just need to build up a level of comfort with not knowing anything and to consider nigh everything as little more than gossip. The feeling like you need to have a strong and factual, straight up and down answer, is what leads people to misinterpret information - not the information itself.
Which is the larger population here: Michaels sensitive about their name being spelled wrong, or regular posters sensitive about stupid corrections that disrupt and distract from threads?
At my first office job, my manager’s name was spelled “Micheal.” Not his fault, he’s not the one who picked his name, and for all I know, that’s a legitimate spelling of the name somewhere.
But it always amused me when I passed his office door and saw:
When I saw that I immediately thought of the Gary Larson one-panel cartoon of the two deer standing upright and one has a big red bullseye on his belly. The other dryly comments “Bummer of a birthmark, Hal”
Of course, then there’s a (small) population of those of us who cringe every time there’s a misspelling and want to immediately correct it, but don’t want to disrupt from the thread.
