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Reddit and the End of Online ‘Community’ (nymag.com)
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A standoff between the site and some of its most devoted users exposes an existential dilemma.

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[–] 31 points 3 years ago* (17 children)

I had thought those where your words at first, you can quote like this;

These people who are mad, they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free. And that free comes at the expense of our other users and our business. That’s what this is about. It can’t be free.

I'm struggling to show you what symbol it is without it turning into a quote, so here's a picture of the greater than symbol;

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    To display formatting characters without having them actually affect formatting, put a backslash in front of them. Like this:

    \>

    That produces this:

    >

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    Oh, nice! So I set the quote in between the greater then and less then symbols and it will show the quote? That is pretty cool. Thank you.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago* (12 children)

    Not quite I think. I believe this uses markdown, which just uses the > at the beginning of a line

    > This is a quote

    should become

    This is a quote

    And if you need more lines, you just keep symboling

    > 1
    > 2
    > 3

    1
    2
    3

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Feels like I'm back on Reddit circa 2015 LOL

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    This never changed for those of us who used old reddit ;)

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    And I believe you can do a multi line quote with 3:

    >>> hello darkness my old friend
    I've come to speak with you again
    More
    Lines

    hello darkness my old friend
    I've come to speak with you again
    More
    Lines

    Unless I'm wrong and this isn't actually working

    Hmm well that looks like it worked too well

    > test
    With
    Several
    Lines

    test
    With
    Several
    Lines

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Nah, multi-line is just

    > line 1
line 2
line 3

    line 1
    line 2
    line 3

    You only need multiple > if you want paragraphs:

    > paragraph 1

> paragraph 2

    paragraph 1

    paragraph 2

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yes but when can we use ||spoilers||

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    >!Testing!< is the Reddit spoiler syntax, not working yet, though: >!Test!<

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