I’ve seen a number of posts lately like “How to get yadda yadda yadda” but when you click, the content is actually a question about the subject line, which sucks.

If you’re posting a question, please make it look like a question. It’s EASY… Just put a QUESTION MARK at the end of your subject line. It looks like this:

?

We’re pirates here, not fucking savages.

  • ReversalHatcheryEnglish
    110·
    6 months ago

    My (non-english) native language uses the question mark, but many don’t use it out of lazyness. I don’t think this is a local issue. Also, are there really that many languages that do not use a question mark? I would have thought that is the rarity.

    Besides, most english content I read on lemmy are not nearly that bad to justify that.

    • anguoEnglish
      60·
      6 months ago

      Fun fact: In Greek the question mark is “;”.

      • ReversalHatcheryEnglish
        20·
        6 months ago

        If programming memes have taught me anything, this one is that :D

        • anguoEnglish
          20·
          6 months ago

          I have to admit that I would have never imagined it’s a different character than the semicolon if I hadn’t seen those. That’s bad optimization right there!

          Interesting additional info: in Greek, the role of the semicolon is played by a floating period ·

          • eltimablo
            20·
            6 months ago

            Somebody needs to get on deduplicating UTF8 ASAP