Strip extraneous line breaks at the end of posts.

November 26, 2001 7:00 PM

Strip extraneous line breaks at the end of posts.
posted by gleemax to Feature Requests at 7:00 PM (25 comments total)

Okay.
posted by Karl at 7:20 PM on November 26, 2001

No! I will die to protect my right to extraneous line breaks! Without extraneous line breaks, our very way of life will be threatened!

Actually that's a pretty good idea....
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:05 PM on November 26, 2001

What?




posted by eyeballkid at 8:09 PM on November 26, 2001

c'mon, someone had to
posted by eyeballkid at 8:09 PM on November 26, 2001

Strip occurences of more than two linebreaks, too.
posted by holloway at 8:29 PM on November 26, 2001

If I see a post line break I don't like, I just don't read it.
posted by mattpfeff at 8:46 PM on November 26, 2001

I do it on metafilter, but not here. I really should just add that simple code to do it.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 11:16 PM on November 26, 2001

What if people are just pausing for




effect?
posted by Kafkaesque at 11:19 PM on November 26, 2001

Also can you strip out extraneous mentions of farm animals?

*ducks*

*chickens*

etc.?????
posted by luser at 5:46 AM on November 27, 2001

I do it on metafilter, but not here. Me too! (I mean, from now on, now that I know the rule) P.S. All my line breaks are due to excessive paragraphing while editing. I now make a point of sucking in my "posted by" tag with the delete key before I post, so that there's no ridiculous, Italian-Opera-style spacing. On the other hand, on MetaFilter I go wild, I tell ya!
posted by MiguelCardoso at 6:12 AM on November 27, 2001

You're drinking again, aren't ya Mikey? C'mon, fess up!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:14 AM on November 27, 2001

Omit needless words!
posted by websavvy at 8:54 AM on November 27, 2001

Omit words!
posted by Neale at 9:01 AM on November 27, 2001

Omit!
posted by iceberg273 at 9:16 AM on November 27, 2001

Om...
posted by ceiriog at 9:43 AM on November 27, 2001

< !-- omit needless words. omit needless words. omit needless words -->
posted by moss at 9:45 AM on November 27, 2001

Augh! You mean I can't hide comments in posts? Tragedy!


But probably also a good idea, I suppose.
posted by moss at 9:46 AM on November 27, 2001

Ignore this post.
posted by TacoConsumer at 9:49 AM on November 27, 2001

Everything I say is a lie.
posted by luser at 12:31 PM on November 27, 2001

That reminds me of Grosse Pointe Blank, luser.
posted by gleemax at 3:24 PM on November 27, 2001

*grabs lapels, leans forward*
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
posted by j.edwards at 3:44 PM on November 27, 2001

There are a lot of unnecessary parts in your average car. Someone should tell the enigneers that they're doing it all wrong.
posted by kindall at 3:58 PM on November 27, 2001

Cup holders ruined everything.
posted by rodii at 4:03 PM on November 27, 2001

And those headlight wipers. Still haven't figured those out. They must be a freak of evolution and will one day fade away like the sad coccyx, appendix, or left arm.
posted by Kafkaesque at 4:06 PM on November 27, 2001

As the left arm fades away, so does my sex life.
posted by Hildago at 1:17 PM on November 28, 2001