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There used to be a commenter here who would end all his comments with a closing paren, even though there had not been an opening paren. It led to a surprising n

by dang 10mo ago

There used to be a commenter here who would end all his comments with a closing paren, even though there had not been an opening paren. It led to a surprising number of flamewars! ) Edit: hmm, I couldn't really find any flamewars, but it did lead to objections: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8534213 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8534213 (Oct 2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8533381 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8533381 (Oct 2014) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6027549 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6027549 (July 2013) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4990706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4990706 (Dec 2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4963264 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4963264 (Dec 2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4943159 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4943159 (Dec 2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4881400 (Dec 2012) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4765943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4765943 (Nov 2012)

jraph 10mo ago
Hilarious. To fix this, one would have needed to put an open parenthesis in a sibling comment and hope to get upvoted more than the comment with the closing parent.
tptacek 10mo ago
That's demonic.
aleksejs 10mo ago
It's a cultural difference thing: https://russian.stackexchange.com/questions/13142/what-do-or-multiple-mean-in-an-internet-conversation https://russian.stackexchange.com/questions/13142/what-do-or...