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I Hope Rexxitors Tone Down the Low-Hanging Comment Chains on Lemmy. (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by win95@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I loved Reddit for what it is, but nothing made me back out of a post faster than seeing the top 3 parent threads as a regurgitation of the same inside jokes, pun-chains, and so on.

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[-] redditrefugee@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago

There's a noticeable generation gap between people who use 1!1!1! and the ones who would say sO MuCh tHiS! I'm not sure when it happened but I'm gonna guess you are about 35?

[-] gary@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

And another generation gap between people who use a double space after a period and those who just use a single space.

You can always tell when someone was trained to type on a typewriter when that happens.

[-] ndr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Why was a double space used?

[-] Mr_Grumpy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Typewriters were/are monospaced, so putting a double space after the full-stop helped you recognise the start of a new sentence, giving it, and you, breathing space.

The PC fonts are size adjusted and double space is no longer necessary, but it doesn't hurt.