I write on my phone. Getting an em dash, an en dash, or an underscore means simply pressing the minus “key” for around half a second until a menu pops up.
Unfortunately, while the SDMB may not have invented “lastwordism”, it has been raised to ridiculous perfection here.
Has not.
Look—{em dash}\> gotta love the punctuation page on my screen …I’m conversing, I write the way I would speak. Out of my head and typed.
Pretty dang sure I don’t need a copy editor.
Ain’t nobody paying me to be here…
You’re right! I can’t add anything further to this.
Same here (except that I use em dashes). And since anything I write tends to devolve into a slew of parenthetical asides if I don’t watch carefully — ADHD at work — I also alternate them so that one doesn’t overwhelm the other.
Beckdawrek Inc. It could happen.
What kind of branding and style guide would that be?
Maybe instead of a unmolested bottle cap, it’d be dented like a bottle opener pried it off?
So, how ‘bout them trolls? Really ruining the place, amirite?
There is zero difference in clarity between word-word and word–word. Zero. Get over yourself.
Word.
I dunno. Sometimes I get the suspicion they’re outing themselves in the right thread
Better if they dash off to another thread.
You win the derailment
It’s the Pit. The one place where that explicitly isn’t a concern. This thread doesn’t have a purpose beyond letting us complain about trolls. Sure, some may find it useful to find trolls and do stuff with them, but that’s not its purpose.
I like having one forum at least where we don’t have to worry about that stuff. The idea that this thread shouldn’t have digressions is a very new one. Before even asking for troll posts to be removed was verboten, let alone forcing everyone to stay on topic.
I’m open to the idea of that changing, that this thread should be an exception, but I think that’s something to discuss, maybe in ATMB.
It’s not unusual for a request to get back on topic for purposeful threads when a hijack goes too long. This thread and the “what were you thinking” thread at least. It’s far from the first time this has happened, and doesn’t represent any kind of change. You probably just didn’t see the previous times it happened or forgot.
I started this thread in the first place because the previous troll thread got taken over by a hijack, although that was worse; it was two jackasses with a personal feud who couldn’t let it go and made it solely about them. It wasn’t a playful diversion and brief hijack.
It also looked like WE? was making a request as a poster, not acting as a moderator, since the request had a normal background and otherwise had no indications that it was any kind of official instruction. So, it doesn’t represent a change in rules for this category; just one person asking folks to please get back to the point of the thread.
(I also believe mods use this forum for hints on who to watch, and too much chatter is an annoyance.)
Not that it matters but it’s “en dash”, I believe.
Yes. And it’s 2-1/2 clicks of the minus sign.
I thought we stopped with the morse code, already.
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Dots what you think