Just wanted to drop in and say hi. Am continuing to write.
kek, this is uncharacteristically short of me. :)
God bless.
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Hi new Fren!
I had a question for new Voat transplants that I think you might be able to help with??
I've noticed different punctuation / editing used lately. Most notably the use of parentheses around words or phrases, sometimes multiples.
(single) ((double)) (((triple)))
Is there meaning in these uses??
Yes.
The meaning used to be, "giving hugs" and the more parentheses, the more love.
That meaning has now changed and I don't know this site well enough to know whether we can talk about the new meaning, freely here.
I just created this account and need to learn the ropes here.
I'm being completely open in this response: it is not easy to tell whether your question is an attempt to "summon a mod" or is just innocent. For most questions, "search is your friend" although I am also. :)
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=why+do+people+put+parentheses+around+names&ia=web is another way to get to the answer, without "being anti-satanic", a reference to Revelation 2:9 and 3:9. God told us a lot in His book.
God bless.
Just genuinely curious! I spent some time on Voat years ago, but didn't notice the usage.
Thank you for your open answer on the original usage. You've piqued my curiosity for the new usage, but you don't have to answer if you'd be uncomfortable.
Thank you for your time!
Oh -- I did answer, just follow that link! :)
And, remembered a third reason they were initially chosen: because it is difficult to tell a search engine, "search for this search term with parentheses around it." If you are searching using regex (regular expressions) then you could do it as "(term)" to search for "term" with one set of parens around it.
And want to be clear, I wasn't "casting aspersions" at you by saying "I'm not exactly certain how I should take this input" -- I was just "sharing some of my processing" as it were. Everything is input, processing, and output. :)
You are welcome, God bless!