Upvoted, especially for including the (previously non-current) issue of having no preview when updating.

But, Parson soonix, your caution against shouting reminds me of the Arkansas farmer who was being taken to task by the preacher for whalloping a balky mule with a scrap piece of lumber. "You shouldn't be using a clue-by-four on that poor animal. You could just talk nicely to it and tell it what you want done, instead."

"Well, shure'nuff, Parson;" said the muleskinner, "but sometimes ya' gotta' git their attenshun first so they'll pay heed to whatch'er saying!"

The color choice was rhetorical; intended as an intensive1 to my agreement with the OP's notion (++ again) that we'd have a much neater and perhaps more civil Monastery, if we were a tad more emphatic about wanting to see para and code tags, even from those sorry cases to whom OGB referrred. But since they tend to be raw noobies, they won't have had must prior exposure to any shouting here)

1 Selected as an alternate to profanity, obscenity or blasphemy as an intensive.


++$anecdote ne $data

In reply to Re^3: Put the formatting information above the posting text box? by ww
in thread Put the formatting information above the posting text box? by stevieb

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