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[-] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 27 points 20 hours ago

But clearly you start with the asterisk

[-] BassTurd@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

I've always been asterisk at the end, but mostly because it's easier for me to type that way.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

Asterisk starts a bullet list in a lot of richtext fields that use markdown

[-] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 12 points 19 hours ago
[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

What kind of heathen doesn't?

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

No, you edit the message so that the typo has a * after it, since asterisks indicate a footnote. Then you post the corrective message with the asterisk at the beginning.

[-] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 6 points 17 hours ago

Just edit the original message with [sic]

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

This is the way.

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