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by dang 4101 days ago
In HN comments, please don't use quotes to look like you're quoting things that you in fact made up.
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Sorry if this had lead to confusion. This is not a quotation, at least not in this sense. I'm talking about a joke and explaining the "joke" in the next paragraphs in a sarcastic (but honest) way, hence the use of quotes. It would have been really rude of me not quoting my text when I'm talking about thousands of people 'cleaned' from an area. Never was supposed to be taken as a literal extract from the web linked, of course.
I used to do this all the time early on at HN. It really bothers people, so I unlearned the habit. I'm glad I did.