Wondering if your typical/average/normie person (millennials and younger) know it or know about it. It’s enabled on reddit and discord?
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Yes, no, maybe.
I don’t know.
Can you repeat the question?Not Markdown as a whole, but I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold. Some also know how to
crossthe text. Not much more for a normie, though.Nope. Most tech people don’t know what markdown is.
*Gen Y
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I’m gonna go with no. I don’t think enough platforms use it natively.
hehe
I think less than 50% of people with access to technology are tech literate enough to know what markdown is. I don’t think age really applies here so much as interest in technology.
Just because I drive a car doesn’t mean I know or care about how it works. It’s just a tool.
I would even say less than 5%
Lol, yeah. I’m probably being too optimistic.
You’re a towel.
…could you please elaborate?
Are you telling me you can’t identify some of the common symptoms of a failing alternator!? Pshhhh…
:P
No
Maybe?
Nah
No, and they don’t want to
Most people are probably at least aware that there are contexts where their basic plain-text formatting (like asterisks for bullets) will get cleaned up to a prettier format when they post it.
They may not know the name of the format or all the available features.
And quartz, of course.
Of course.
No.
Elder Millennial here. All I know about markdown is:
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To make a hard copy of a thought or conversation. “Mark that down in your notes, so we don’t forget.”
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A discount or sale. “Did you see the 30% markdown on three legged jeans?”
30% markdown on three legged jeans? Damn, that’s almost one whole leg for free!
And yet you just used it! Some parts of markdown were made to be intuitive and natural like:
- Numbering your items
- will automatically format them
- into ordered lists
- and if you use
-it’s an unordered list
- same with asterisk
Still don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.
You typed some text to make your first comment, and it looked something like this:
Elder Millennial here. All I know about markdown is: 1. To make a hard copy of a thought or conversation. "Mark that down in your notes, so we don't forget." 2. A discount or sale. "Did you see the 30% markdown on three legged jeans?"The way your comment actually displays is different though, isn’t it? The numbered items are indented and come one after the other without any space inbetween, and the text within each numbered item is properly alignem.
What you entered is just text, and text by itself is inherently meaningless. “Markdown” is the name of a particular standard way of formatting text so that programs can reliably interpret parts of that text as representing the writers desire for their text to be displayed a particular way. You can kind of think of it like a programming language. As another basic example, consider this text:
This is a paragraph. This is still the same paragraph. Here is the second one. And here is the third one.I’m going to paste this text right after this sentence; notice how the amount of space doesn’t matter, and how a new paragraph is denoted by at least two line breaks.
This is a paragraph. This is still the same paragraph.
Here is the second one.
And here is the third one.
I am, also, an elder millennial and confused. Maybe it’s just some form of problem solving/way to sort your thoughts or options?
Some parts of markdown were made to be intuitive and natural like
And then other parts of it are just infuriating. Like how if you try to post song lyrics or something, the markdown just mashes every sentence together in one line for some reason. So you have to know the secret code just to make gdamn new lines. I actually pressed enter to go to a new line 5 times in this paragraph but it comes out all jumbled together after posting.
As far as I’m concerned, I shouldn’t need to know some special formatting just for return to work properly.
And then you’re on your phone, and typing two spaces at the end of each line is a mess because your keyboard insists you really want punctuation and a space. Because why would you end a sentence with two spaces. Gah.
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**NO**
