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I don't think the post you're replying to deserves what feels like an aggressive dressing-down. The reality is that post formatting on HN is really janky and it's hard to get it to do what you want. I don't blame someone for failing to master HN formatting on one of their first tries.


Promise to try better next time, its really first post ever i have made on here, sorry!


(I'm a mod on HN) - We're both happy and lucky to have you, and I hope you'll stick around!

Also, I hope getting to #1 on the front page with your first post led to more positive vibes than getting harangued led to negative ones :)


Don’t worry at all. Thank you for the content, and thank you for your time.


Don't worry about it. I was able to read and understand your message clearly, even with the unimportant formatting mistakes.


You're doing fine! In general the best trick for HN posts is just to add

extra

line breaks

so that there's enough space between your sentences.


I've been here since like 2008 and I still screw it up sometimes. I'd have a not do it but HN comments are one of my "zero AI" zones. To echo sibling, its time to support markdown, its a standard now and even in arc, a reasonable subset is a pittance on anyone's time budget. It doesn't need to match GH bug for bug, that's a real project, but code formatting `backticks` is table stakes.


I wonder if its healthy to end up at aggressive dressing down is when we review peoples submitted work and point out the second half is LLM-generated 4 item lists.


Time for some self-reflection, I think.


You think so? Sounds a bit overwrought.




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