Thanks for the intention admins, but this **completely breaks the math sublistnooks**. I made a post on it here:
http://www.listnook.com/r/cheatatmathhomework/comments/dw8gc/whats_up_with_the_superscripts/
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raldiOct 25, 2010
+19
Surround anything with backticks, or prepend four spaces to the line, and all markdown is disabled.
It looks `like^this`
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thetwentyoneOct 25, 2010
+28
For the old comments/questions where users weren't aware of the new formatting, could there be a time limiter on the formatting? For example, all comments posted prior to today handle the ^ in the old way?
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[deleted]Oct 25, 2010
+2
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raldiOct 25, 2010
+9
Well, think of it this way: 2^2 or 3^2 or 4^2 are all still pretty small numbers, but once you move on to higher exponents, the numbers get big very quickly. For example, 9^9 is over 380 million!
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[deleted]Oct 25, 2010
+2
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cecilkorikOct 25, 2010
+3
I'm pretty sure the explanation is a joke. They just like to give gold subscribers the first chance to play with the new toys before they open it up to everyone.
Probably so they can get an idea of how people will try to exploit it to make the site look awful for everyone and fix it if needed, before they unleash superscript upon the teeming hordes.
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metaleksOct 25, 2010
+84
> But wait, there's more: You can now do superscript via the ^ character. This one is still a bit experimental; we don't want to overload our servers with lots of really big numbers, so for the first 24 hours, the use of exponents larger than 2 **will be restricted to listnook gold subscribers, who I trust will be discreet about using this special ability in front of less fortunate members of the community.**
N^o^o^o^o w^a^y. s^u^c^k^s t^o b^e t^h^e^m!
I find myself reading the one in bold in the voice of G-Man from Half Life
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prothidOct 25, 2010
+3
How did you do the descending letters? Please pastebin it.
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[deleted]Oct 25, 2010
+7
http://pastebin.com/vEKCwfHd
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prothidOct 26, 2010
+9
Thanks! This is all I wanted to do. =)
o [](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^o o o [](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^o o o [](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^o o o [](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^[](http://)^o [](http://)^o o
http://pastebin.com/WXXC15CF
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VallamOct 25, 2010
+37
Have you considered [Project Wonderful?](http://www.projectwonderful.com/) It was started by the best webcomicist of our generation, and seems to live up to its name from what I can tell as a layperson. Also I think you guys would be doing them and the entire internet a favor by giving a functional and not-evil advertising network the huge exposure that comes with this here Listnook thing.
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sapiophileOct 25, 2010
+7
Came here to say this. PW is a whole new paradigm of online ads, and it seems to work pretty darn well. I don't think it's ever been used on a site with as much traffic as listnook; it would be a very interesting experiment.
PW is an idea whose time has come.
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HideousOct 26, 2010
+3
I use PW on my website, and it has caused Citriqsquid to make an ad that says "RECURSION RULES!" and loops back to my website.
I like it.
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dolgarOct 25, 2010
-1
Let's put this in perspective.
This is a marketing company asking you to financially support them. Listnook is not some little nonprofit. They are an arm of Conde Nast. Would you pay money to support Redbook?
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raldiOct 26, 2010
+5
We're open to suggestions. How would you like us to pay for the cost of running the site?
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dolgarOct 26, 2010
+1
The outcome is inevitable.
And is illustrated by the fact that you're accepting promos for nicotine products. Addictive neurotoxins by listnookors for listnookors!
I have a phrase for it: The Process of Diggification™
But a membership model is probably better than anything else, to be honest. It remains to be seen whether you can have success with that without any of the numerous negative effects of the walled garden.
I'll give you my advice, what I would do in your situation. Sell out as much as possible. Take the money and run. Historically sites like this one have a shelf-life and eventually collapse, a process which can happen nearly overnight.
If you really are as anti-establishment as the marketing fluff seems to claim (the big happy bacon and narwhal family bullshit, etc. Twee soaps for hip hipster butts) r*** the corporadoes, sell out, take the money and do something genuinely positive with it.
Good luck.
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raldiOct 26, 2010
+4
>you're accepting promos for nicotine products
Where? (Edit: Are you talking about [this](http://www.listnook.com/comments/dv9ah/curious_about_electronic_cigarettes_now_you_can/)? Electronic cigarettes have no tobacco; they're fake cigarettes that help people *give up* nicotine.)
>Sell out as much as possible
The people who founded listnook sold it four years ago. The current staff never owned any stock in the company.
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KalgarooOct 25, 2010
+61
Is it bad that, when I saw the "look_of_disapproval" section, I was hoping that typing "look_of_disapproval" would be parsed into a ಠ_ಠ?
If you guys are interested, I bet I could whip up an ad wrapper in Flash that prevents the ad from making any noise until the user has clicked on it.
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JoakalOct 25, 2010
+14
Yes, nothing congratulates a person more on clicking an ad and getting full-volume speaker-blast of "DIARRHOEA TABLETS" or so I hear.
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apersonOct 25, 2010
+8
It's still better than it auto playing. **IS THERE NOTHING THAT WILL MAKE YOU HAPPY?**
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HraesOct 25, 2010
+11
> blast of "DIARRHOEA
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Liquid_FireOct 25, 2010
+3
It's possible they don't have that much control over the ads so as to be able to load them in a wrapper, and the ad network probably doesn't allow messing with them in this way.
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[deleted]Oct 25, 2010
+134
> Underscores in the middle of words will no longer be treated as italics markers.
F*** YES
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ZachSka87Oct 25, 2010
+134
> ~~F*** YES~~ FUCK__YES
F^T^F^Y
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[deleted]Oct 25, 2010
+39
You needed at least two underscores to make italics.
Finally people will be able to say my name properly!
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muad_dibOct 25, 2010
+17
poop*in*yo_soup.
Shit.
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jerstud56Oct 25, 2010
+21
damn*it*_*so*_much
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[deleted]Oct 25, 2010
+20
Actually, it used to be damn*it*so_much.
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jerstud56Oct 25, 2010
+7
ah true you're right
damn_it_so_much
hooray!
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_italics_Oct 25, 2010
+12
YEAH!
edit: wait... :-(
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nkuvuOct 25, 2010
+8
I'm hoping that this comment won't be too lost among all of the superscript shenanigans.
But what I'd like to know is if Listnook *told* the advertising company why they were being kicked off of the site. Listnook is a lot more influential than many smaller sites, so it's possible that you could use your powers for the benefit of internet users everywhere -- and maybe someday there will actually be a checkbox for "Don't ever show an autoplaying media ad, ever."
Or even better, if the annoying autoplay media ads disappeared entirely, like most pop-up and pop-under ads.
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[deleted]Oct 25, 2010
+143
I think that all that is left to do is to implement the blink tag.
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erez27Oct 26, 2010
+13
And reverse-blink, where the text is hidden but periodically reveals itself for a short duration.
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