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Journal RockDoctor's Journal: Hall of (apostrophised) Shame of editors. 43

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Who can't handle "Apple-ish" funny quotes, without for one second considering the more difficult question of non-Latin characters and other HTML entities.

For clarity, the problem seems to be (not an Apple-eater myself) that Apple, with some level of automation, substitute a typographical double- (or single-) quote pair where the text file has (had) an ASCII double- or single-quote pair in it. SlashCode has more problems with HTML and Unicode entities, but this particular bug is particularly common. And annoying.

And msmash is one of the guilty parties.

How many editors are there?

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  • Think of /. as "selective" in its appeal.
    • Old, well-tested code isn't necessarily bad. Old code with well known and serious bugs, on the other hand ...

      Not everyone only uses ASCII in their names, or places they mention or have worked. Or people they have worked with. This aspect of Slash is well known and utterly laughable. It's continued state of brokenness is a stain on anyone who leaves the company without at least getting a couple of written warnings from management for continually nagging to get it fixed.

      • I used to be smitty_one_each until they up and decided to blow away underscores in names.
        • I didn't know that they had. Probably some ... what's the word, "input sanitising"? effort at post bolted-horse stable door closing.

        • I used to be smitty_one_each until they up and decided to blow away underscores in names.

          Did they? I existed before then, and my underscore never went away.

          • Possibly targeted harassment, or a simple whoopsie? Who knows?

            • Possibly targeted harassment

              Of course, if there can be a conspiracy, I figured I could count on you to put it forward.

              Never attribute to incompetence that which could be assigned to malice, right?

              • I should think that the "Who knows?" in the very same line would indicate that the situation is ambiguous, and no attribution is made. Except, perhaps, by you.
                • Well then why didn't you suggest Martians? Or Cardassians? Or Kardashians? Or Will Smith looking for someone else to slap? You chose to say

                  targeted harassment

                  • As long as you're setting yourself up as Speech Komissar, simply provide to me the Correct Thought. Much more efficient that way.
                    • I guess I forgot again that words have no meaning when you feel that to be the case. You said targeted harassment because your cat walked across your keyboard and typed it for you, or because you fell asleep and managed to bash out those words with your forehead or something.

                      It would be easier to converse with you if you would let us know when your words don't have meaning so we don't have to waste time asking you what you're talking about.
                    • All I can do is pray for you. Understanding may come.

                    • All I can do is pray for you. Understanding may come.

                      So then did you lay out a conspiracy for any reason, or was it just word salad on your behalf? You specifically said

                      targeted harassment

                      Do you just have too much love for conspiracy for the sake of conspiracy that you couldn't resist conjuring one up here? Do you have a similar conspiracy for why so many people have been having problems on the "Truth" social network?

                    • You've flogged this dead "conspiracy" horse to the point of glue.

                      Even the losers at Pravda on the Hudson (the New York Times) are admitting that Hunter Biden's laptop was real; the Steel Dossier is finally coming out as a complete lie; the bogus election stories are mounting.

                      Keep shrieking "conspiracy", by all means. It's cute, in some twisted sense.
                    • Wow you jumped from your local "smitty da victim" conspiracy to federal level Q-endorsed conspiracies in one comment in one thread. Can you please tell us how the larger conspiracy somehow validates the smaller? Are you claiming that Hunter Biden for some reason now runs slashdot and is targeting you personally here for harassment? Honestly that would be as well rooted in reality as any of your other favorite conspiracies.
                    • Bottom line: there won't be anything substantive known about what's occurred in the last 15 years for at least another 15 years, if that soon.

                      As much as can be said now is that our entire system is a colossal, tragic, expensive farce. Not a partisan observation. Parties, themselves, are substantially farcical.

                      Berners-Lee had some utopian vision about the internet improving the signal-to-noise ratio.

                      Whoops.

                    • Bottom line: there won't be anything substantive known about what's occurred in the last 15 years for at least another 15 years, if that soon.

                      In other words you will feel warranted in peddling your favorite conspiracies until the end of time, because you will never accept anything that discredits them.

                      But to get back to the original point - you injected federal conspiracies here when I was only asking about your local slashdot conspiracy - why did you even suggest

                      targeted harassment

                      Earlier? Were you just trying to waste time or did you have a reason to bring it up? Were you just trolling with that or were you actually trying to bring light to something with

                    • "My favorite conspiracies" about the Bidens, the Clintons and 2020 all seem to be moving toward a crescendo. Or not. We'll have to wait and see. We're afflicted with "Your Team's" wretched movie franchise, whether we want to watch your globalist Great Reset crap or not.

                    • Well, I, for one, am very pleased there is no unicode here! Who needs all those emojis anyway?

                    • "My favorite conspiracies" about the Bidens, the Clintons and 2020 all seem to be moving toward a crescendo.

                      We both know the only ending to those conspiracies you will accept is one that places all of them in jail for the rest of their lives, including their wives and offspring. Any other ending will leave you saying that it's not done yet and there is more to see soon.

                      your globalist Great Reset crap or not.

                      ... and then you end your comment with an even grander and more absurd conspiracy.

                    • one that places all of them in jail for the rest of their lives, including their wives and offspring.

                      No no no no no. As long as you're pulling things from the digestive tract, go the full

                      "Nay," responded the Khan [quotecounterquote.com], "to crush your enemies, to see them fall at your feet--to take their horses and goods and hear the lamentation of their women. That is best."

                      I'm completely disappointed at your half-fast hyperbole here. Do better.

                    • one that places all of them in jail for the rest of their lives, including their wives and offspring.

                      I'm completely disappointed at your half-fast hyperbole here. Do better.

                      Really? Why? You keep pulling out new conspiracies from nowhere to tell us why everyone with the wrong consonant after their name is automatically a career criminal. One conspiracy that you promote fizzles out and you ramp up the rhetoric for the next one. Being as you completely disregard the concept of Innocent Until Proven Guilty anytime there is a conspiracy pertaining to a democrat, you happily keep bringing out old ones as well long after they've passed expiration.

                      You've given no reason to ex

                    • Being as you completely disregard the concept of Innocent Until Proven Guilty

                      Durham.

                    • Being as you completely disregard the concept of Innocent Until Proven Guilty

                      Durham.

                      Are you referring to the prosecutor who so many conservatives believe will bring about grand criminal charges against Hillary Clinton?

                      If so, you're doing more to support my earlier claim of

                      you happily keep bringing out old ones as well long after they've passed expiration

                      Than not.

                    • long after they've passed expiration

                      Your Team had better pray hard to Cthulhu that this proves true.

                    • Notably this is yet another case of you applying one set of criteria to your team and another to those who are not on your team. You and others have argued for all charges against Trump - regardless of when they initiated - to be dropped due to timing. Yet here you are trying to dig up new charges against Clinton that predate that same era.

                      At this point I am expecting you to eventually conjure up a conspiracy that ties the Obama daughters to the JFK assassination.

                      All that said you still haven't an
                    • Are you asking me if speculation is speculation?
                    • I am asking you if you had any factual basis for that speculation, or if you were just tossing up conspiracy for the sake of conspiracy.

                      You have a long record here of parroting conspiracies. If you were just aiming to start a new one for fun, that's fine. You've been especially dodgy about this one so I there is no reason not to suspect it is only that in this case.
                    • Does it really matter, though? Information seems to come in two flavors with you: (a) narrative-conformant, or (b) conspiracy theory.

                    • Does it really matter, though?

                      Yes, it does. If you're actually being harassed on slashdot by someone who would be able to modify your username why would you be obtuse about it? Otherwise you might as well blame it on Martians.

                      Information seems to come in two flavors with you: (a) narrative-conformant, or (b) conspiracy theory.

                      I'm sorry that you feel the need to invoke a binary world on that matter, as you have done with so many others.

                    • I'm sorry that you feel the need to invoke a binary world on that matter, as you have done with so many others.

                      #SorryNotSorry

  • How many editors are there?

    Most days I think that number is between zero and one; generally leaning towards the former. Little if any editing is done here any more, and those who have ability to post stories to the front page don't seem to be aware of these problems when they come up.

    We're down to just a skeleton crew on this Titanic of a website. There hasn't been any new code added here in many many years, and I don't expect any to ever be added again before they turn out the lights for the last time.

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