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I don't know about that, but if you use three hyphens, the Lemmy Web UI will render it as an em-dash, and you can remain human!
EDIT: Unfortunately, nobody appears to have made a Threadiverse community analogous to Reddit's /r/totallynotrobots.
Em dashes are hyped up, but most people aren't writing up bulleted lists themselves for a random email.
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there's a use for the em dash. it is mainly on reports and literature. i just don't see it on the casual internet much.
from what i read, it is the use of realm and delve that have strong leanings of ai bias.
my suspicion regards the usage. colloquially, we use these dashes interchangeably. nobody is measuring your dash size (unless maybe the president).
the suspicion arrives when this formatting occurs under circumstances where the autocorrect kicks in.
or maybe i'm just on crack. i'd appreciate any thoughts.
to be fair, that's some presidential level autocorrect if it thinks it knows how you should measure your dashes.
i agree that in the internet, no one does (or at least, actively) try to measure them dash sizes.
hmmm, any thoughts... huh these people and their cracks sure do love their long lines~
dem durr lrrns dun duk ur jrrbs!!
sorry.
You're not a computer, you're just making terrible formatting choices.
what's the deal?
01001110 01101001 01100011 01100101 00100000
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(alt 45)
That’s why I use en dashes instead of em dashes when writing with Helvetica; it’s too long anyway.
EDIT: Actually I don't think you're a troll, I think you're looking for tips to make your AI posts harder to detect by getting people to tell you what gives it away.
And for reference: No, you're not actually using em dashes. Although you already knew that, because if you can google a binary converter, you can google "em dash".