And even if one such person exists, then why is (s)he given the right to screw up the view for anyone else?

No one is given the right to screw up anything for anyone else ... if i leave the box unchecked, and i post garbage posts with crappy unclosed tags, that doesn't screw anything up for you as long as you have the box checked.

If however post content was "auto-fixed" on creation, that would "screw up" the original content for anyone who wanted to see it.

I won't dispute an argument that the default value for users should be "checked", mainly because i have no idea what the default value is for new users ... i suspect when the feature was added it was left unchecked for existing users so as to be backwards compatible and not change existing behavior (which also fits into the Perl philosophy)

PS: I regard to a Private Message i received about whether or not the XML view would show you the original intent: that's not going to help you if you *change* the content when it's created, that's why "Enforce proper nesting of HTML" is a *display* setting.

In reply to Re^4: Unclosed tags in posts by hossman
in thread Unclosed tags in posts by blazar

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