format impedes discussion

October 15, 2005 3:48 PM

Interesting post (maybe) - hoist by it's own petard.
Initial comments ignore the substance - format impedes discussion.

Administrators - PHM!
posted by dash_slot- to Bugs at 3:48 PM (19 comments total)

What is PHM?
posted by snsranch at 4:08 PM on October 15, 2005

please hope me
posted by found missing at 4:10 PM on October 15, 2005

I changed the line breaks a bit, but to do the "more inside" edit magic requires mathowie's touch.
posted by jessamyn at 4:14 PM on October 15, 2005

It would also be nice if you could excise all the "this post's formatting sucks" comments.
posted by interrobang at 4:15 PM on October 15, 2005

cleardawn is a saint by comparison
posted by mischief at 4:16 PM on October 15, 2005

It would also be nice if you could excise all the "this post's formatting sucks" comments.

I got some of the early ones, let's see if it helps.
posted by jessamyn at 4:21 PM on October 15, 2005

Thank you.
posted by augustweed at 4:25 PM on October 15, 2005

Crivens. One shudders to think what that must've looked like pre-jessatrimming.

Still, any post that inspires a comment by a real live belly-dancing afficionado is okay by me.
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posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:48 PM on October 15, 2005

mr_crash, I think I understand your point, but perhaps you could make it even easier to understand.
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posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:48 PM PST on October 15

Nah. I'd hope that this post is fine. But augustweeds - well, that's getting better, with tweaks.
/pedant
posted by dash_slot- at 6:09 PM on October 15, 2005

but to do the "more inside" edit magic requires mathowie's touch

fuck! God is not omnipotent!!!

that what happens when trades monotheism for polytheism.
I should have kept on worshipping Ra, I guess.
posted by matteo at 8:29 PM on October 15, 2005

Or the Holy Trinity: Ra, Ra, and Rasputin.

this comment's formatting sucks
posted by arto at 9:00 PM on October 15, 2005

Or the Holy Trinity: Ra, Ra, and Rasputin.

I know that song....
posted by jessamyn at 9:06 PM on October 15, 2005

so what was wrong with the original post's formatting?

I ask because the post I saw it after Jessamyn's trimming is a little long, but chock full of interest.

marquee
posted by shmegegge at 10:47 PM on October 15, 2005

shmegegge, it was something like fifteen two-sentence paragraphs long originally.
posted by interrobang at 11:20 PM on October 15, 2005

The French used pétard, “a loud discharge of intestinal gas,” for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. “To be hoist by one's own petard,” a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means “to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices.” The French noun pet, “fart,” developed regularly from the Latin noun pēditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd–, “fart.”
posted by srboisvert at 11:52 AM on October 16, 2005

I thought the original posting was odd, but good. It sent me off on an internet excursion. Some of you are way too up-tight. *toot* O! ex-squeeze-me!
posted by Mr T at 2:14 PM on October 16, 2005

Wouldn't the past have had to have been condemning poor post formatting for him to have been hoist by his own petard?
posted by nthdegx at 1:10 PM on October 17, 2005