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.

  • anguoEnglish
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    Fun fact: In Greek the question mark is ;.

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

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        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 ·

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          Somebody needs to get on deduplicating UTF8 ASAP