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Reddit and the End of Online ‘Community’ (nymag.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A standoff between the site and some of its most devoted users exposes an existential dilemma.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I had thought those where your words at first, you can quote like this;

These people who are mad, they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free. And that free comes at the expense of our other users and our business. That’s what this is about. It can’t be free.

I'm struggling to show you what symbol it is without it turning into a quote, so here's a picture of the greater than symbol;

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To display formatting characters without having them actually affect formatting, put a backslash in front of them. Like this:

\>

That produces this:

>

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

>

nice, thanks for that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The "\" is a so called "escape character" in thise case. Just FYI :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, nice! So I set the quote in between the greater then and less then symbols and it will show the quote? That is pretty cool. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not quite I think. I believe this uses markdown, which just uses the > at the beginning of a line

> This is a quote

should become

This is a quote

And if you need more lines, you just keep symboling

> 1
> 2
> 3

1
2
3

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feels like I'm back on Reddit circa 2015 LOL

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This never changed for those of us who used old reddit ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had no idea it was different for new Reddit, I never touched that interface except to hurriedly find my preferences and set them back to Old. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well it did because everyone on old Reddit already knew how to use it LOL

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I believe you can do a multi line quote with 3:

>>> hello darkness my old friend
I've come to speak with you again
More
Lines

hello darkness my old friend
I've come to speak with you again
More
Lines

Unless I'm wrong and this isn't actually working

Hmm well that looks like it worked too well

> test
With
Several
Lines

test
With
Several
Lines

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah, multi-line is just

> line 1
line 2
line 3

line 1
line 2
line 3

You only need multiple > if you want paragraphs:

> paragraph 1

> paragraph 2

paragraph 1

paragraph 2

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but when can we use ||spoilers||

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

>!Testing!< is the Reddit spoiler syntax, not working yet, though: >!Test!<