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Wildly off-topic, but I recently learned this. Use asterisks in HN to express emphasis* in italics*. I too used underscores (a la Slack) up until a couple weeks
by Cd00d 6y ago
Wildly off-topic, but I recently learned this. Use asterisks in HN to express emphasis* in italics*. I too used underscores (a la Slack) up until a couple weeks ago when I noticed a comment from Dang somewhere saying how to emphasize.
- wonder_er 6y agoaaaah thank you! I often mis-apply slack/markdown formatting. Instead, now I will less often mis-apply markdown formatting to hacker news. Thank you! And this isn't "wildly off-topic", by the way. This is "extremely germane to what I said, but addresses something other than the specific point I was trying to say." Doesn't make it not helpful. In fact, I bet there are many situations where this kind of feedback is more (I almost wrongly-formatted that!) helpful than addressing the comment directly. You, dear internet stranger, have taught me something. Thank you!