This struck me as trollish, sounding like somebody replying to themselves while pretending to be somebody else. Checking showed that all three nodes in this thread were posted from the same IP (the nodes by my_nihilist, Anonymous Monk, and halfcountplus). This also confirmed my increasing impression that the interactions between my_nihilist and halfcountplus in the chatterbox sounded like somebody talking to themselves.

So, you wanted more attention, feeling the need to take a discussion in a sub-thread and escalate it into a new root node. So, now you have even more reason to get that extra attention.

As to your supposed original complaint, you didn't even link to the proper node, the one that was accused of having unclosed tags: Re^2: newbies, <code> tags and recognizing perl. If you go to display settings and turn on "Enforce proper nesting of HTML" and set "HTML error reporting level" to 3, then you'll be able to see quite a few reports for mis-nested tags in Re^2: newbies, <code> tags and recognizing perl.

And you don't need to use PRE tags to get </code> to appear in "code", just use <c> tags like <c></code></c>.

(FYI, missing word added before the appearance of reply urging "you should proofred beter".)

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: monastery mark-upedness (trolling) by tye
in thread monastery mark-upedness by my_nihilist

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