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Reddit Spacing
Luis Garcia
Brayden Morris
It's called marquee!
Gavin Hall
here is the real answer for you children too young to have used email in a terminal. the purpose of this *markdown* feature (not reddit feature) is so that you can paste in formatted emails and they will be re-wrapped according to css rules. plain-text emails are usually formatted with 70-80 character wide lines so that they fit in cli/tui mail clients on standard-sized terminals. this is preferable to unpredictable automatic client-side wrapping because the sender can control e.g. how special characters and long words at the end of lines are dealt with on a case-by-case basis. html text is not supposed to be manually wrapped like this because browsers are pretty smart and css exists, so markdown does this conversion.
this is why Jow Forums spacing is retarded:
if the end of this line happens to be at the right edge of your screen,
you can't tell if this is a new line or it just got wrapped.
it is particularly illegible on a narrow screen when you write several long paragraphs. then some lines are wrapped and some are new paragraphs and you can't tell where a paragraph ends and begins. so please, use reddit spacing. separate your paragraphs on Jow Forums with double line breaks.
Nicholas Foster
>ITT we talk to kids 15 years younger than ourselves and take them seriously...
Jokes on you disphits
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Thomas Gutierrez
have used double spacing between paragraphs since i learnt to type
Lincoln Hill
horizontallet
John Phillips
some of us high iq folk write paragraphs with many words in them, that do not fit on any screen. besides, long lines are hard to read.
Noah Reed
he just explained it you literal fucking idiot. they use a markdown engine for their post formatting.
Easton Gutierrez
If you're writing proper paragraphs then double spacing makes sense.
If you're breaking up ideas, like you would when writing proper paragraphs, then double spacing makes sense.
If you just want to start the sentence on a new line for readability's sake, then single spacing is fine too. Like if you want to make sure the sentence is read from that point on, and it definitely does not build directly off the previous sentence.
If you're bullet pointing shit, like this, then single spacing is quite preferable. Green texting works too, but I prefer to leave that for quoting and paraphrasing.
The only related issue that is annoying to me is double spacing shit like single sentences. Or worse yet, single words. Because drastically increasing vertical space used like that really sucks.
But even that isn't a large enough issue to be worth derailing any thread for.
This is not an issue that's inherently caused by Reddit. And not specific to markdown either.
Trying to call people out for post formatting is retarded. And retarding. Like it literally holds back discussion of whatever the thread's topic is.
Kevin Young
Good you wrote this. It was too tiring for me to do it.