[joemi]

offtopic, but: I think when your footnotes themselves need footnotes, there's probably a clearer way to write what you wanted to write. Jumping through multiple levels of nested footnotes is fairly hard to read, at least for me.

[inopinatus]

Indeed; they are log-structured.

[mrgoldenbrown]

It's most likely not that they needed footnoted footnotes, rather that they wanted them and structured their post on purpose to create them.