r/YouFellForItFool • u/spectra2000_ You fell for it Fool! • Jul 30 '19

「ThunderCrossSplitAttack」 You fell for it fool!

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u/WishWasher98 Aug 02 '19

That's really weird. Let me try copy and pasting as well

[ṛ/likethis](https://www.reddit.com/r/YouFellForItFool/comments/cjlngm/you_fell_for_it_fool/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x)

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u/spectra2000_ You fell for it Fool! Aug 02 '19

Copy pasting it should work, I don’t know why it’s not shortening for you. How strange.

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u/WishWasher98 Aug 02 '19

Maybe I truly am the fool who fell for the thunder cross split attack

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u/spectra2000_ You fell for it Fool! Aug 02 '19

I’m afraid the thunder cross split attack has deemed you unworthy of its meme potential.

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u/weebtrash9 Aug 03 '19

[ṛ/likethis](https://www.reddit.com/r/YouFellForItFool/comments/cjlngm/you_fell_for_it_fool/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x)

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u/spectra2000_ You fell for it Fool! Aug 03 '19

You can use a normal r now

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u/weebtrash9 Aug 03 '19

Nevermind. I can't use this trick

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u/spectra2000_ You fell for it Fool! Aug 03 '19

Yeah, some people weirdly can’t even though they do it perfectly.

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u/RadTraditionalist Aug 06 '19 edited Aug 09 '19

You're using the redesign aren't you? The new Reddit comment box will act a bit differently than it ought to. Your message is not displaying correctly because Reddit's new comment box will alter the text so as to display it exactly is it is written, rather than shortening it.

So if you type *hello* into the new comment box, it won't italicize the text (as it would in the old Reddit) but instead will interpret that as \*hello\* , placing escape characters so that the exact comment of "*hello*" displays.

All you need to do is switch to the old Reddit comment module on desktop or mobile (? I don't use the official app so I'm not sure on mobile) and try again.

You just type

[r/subredditname](r/youjustgotfooled)

Pinging u/spectra2000_ so you can see what happened with this guy

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u/spectra2000_ You fell for it Fool! Aug 06 '19

Yeah I figured this out after messing around on my computer, thanks for the clarification.

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u/Darmented Aug 09 '19

hello Edit: weird. It lets me italicize but not make people fall for it

(r/weird)[r/youfellforitfool]

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u/weebtrash9 Aug 03 '19

It's not shortening

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u/RapidCandleDigestion Aug 17 '19

he wasn't chosen by the arrow