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This has been asked for many times, and has been rejected for many reasons including the fact that people will just create dummy accounts to downvote, revenge voting will occur, etc. Ultimately, what value will someone typing "asdgf" have when they just want to downvote out of spite?
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"revenge" is a very bad one... okay no problem if you people has been rejected this issue..will try to be very definite onwards while answering.
Thanks..
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No offense but it may be your language style. It's pretty good for a non-native speaker, but people are biased (often subconsciously) against responses that are obviously "foreign" (relatively speaking). It's not even about grammar. Someone using bad grammar but is obviously a native speaker may see his responses better received than someone writing perfect grammar but in a very unusual (non-native) style.
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This is sad, but true. Mind you, I had a lovely email from one of our regulars this morning - he's doing some fantastic things now and he just mailed me to thank me for taking time to help him. It's moments like that, that make it all worthwhile. The knowing that you managed to help someone get on and do the things they want to do.
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Yeah, I understand. One guy saying thank-you makes up for the 99 others that don't
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Maybe I'm lucky but I find a lot do thank me. Anecdotally, it seems to be more of an Indian thing - I've had more thanks from our Indian users than I get from the European or American users.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Maybe I'm lucky No, I think it is more to do with the quality of your answers and articles. And the fact that you seem to have the patience of a saint sometimes.
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There are many fine answers given, by many people. Don't underestimate your own fine contributions Richard. You also go above and beyond when helping.
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Nish Nishant wrote: people are biased (often subconsciously) against responses that are obviously "foreign" (relatively speaking)
indeed[^]
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It's seems the 'line breaks' aren't displayed. Unless you enter two of them and then both of them are displayed.
2 line breaks before this line./
1 line break before this line
In Edit they do come back, in the preview they aren't displayed.
So probably just something with the display
In case it's important:
Chrome Version 41.0.2272.101 m
[EDIT]
Never mind, apparently it's all due to the 'markdown formatting', I completely missed that.
And there is a checkbox to 'un-use' it so that solves the problems (the checkbox even saves so very handy )
[/EDIT]
Tom
modified 31-Mar-15 9:00am.
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I was just going to report that too.
Typing <br> seems to help (but I don't want to do that every time I need a line break).
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Markdown is enabled. It needs two line breaks.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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See Chris's Markdown announcement in the Lounge:
An important note is that to add a linebreak you'll need to either
add 2 spaces to the end of a line, or add a blank line between lines.
Also here[^].
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Didn't see that.
But still is this intended behavior?
I don't want to have to add those 2 spaces every time when I'm just typing text.
They do seem to work tho.
Tom
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You can always un-tick the "Use Markdown formatting" option to get the old behaviour back.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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O crap, I need more coffee.
Hadn't seen that checkbox yet.
Thanks that helps (here is hoping my selection is saved).
[EDIT]
Wohooo it is saved, all problems solved
Thanks
[/EDIT]
Tom
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I've made a change (not yet deployed) which will restore linebreaks.
You can have your cake and eat it, too. Or something.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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*homer simpson voice*
Hmmmmmmm caaaaaaaaakkkkkkeeeeeee ...
*/homer simpson voice*
Tom
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Your Enters are back
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Sorry to be a pain, but that fix is now adding extra line-breaks to code blocks.
Typing:
Line 1<br />Line 2
Produces:
Line 1
Line 2
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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This makes me want to punch Markdown in the head.
OK, gimme 5.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Time to send a squad off these[^] to the Markdown headquarters?
Tom
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OK, try this
var line1;
int line 2
That seems to have
fixed that.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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