You got me. Overall, I preffer to judge posts by their content, so I’m glad to learn of your trick.
For the record, even I expected to stop at the Daring Fireball link. I also wrote a bunch of examples, but only then noticed/remembered the “Show help” button. I also erased a sentence about how to show markdown code in markdown (it’s rarely useful here, there was the Daring Fireball link, and my real reason for writing it was to show off).
I tend to heavily edit my writings. My most useful heuristic so far is “shorter is better”. This very comment benefited from it (let’s stop the recursion right there).
You got me. Overall, I preffer to judge posts by their content, so I’m glad to learn of your trick.
For the record, even I expected to stop at the Daring Fireball link. I also wrote a bunch of examples, but only then noticed/remembered the “Show help” button. I also erased a sentence about how to show markdown code in markdown (it’s rarely useful here, there was the Daring Fireball link, and my real reason for writing it was to show off).
I tend to heavily edit my writings. My most useful heuristic so far is “shorter is better”. This very comment benefited from it (let’s stop the recursion right there).
It seemed gentler than responding with a direct challenge to the inference behind the presumption.