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    Multiple . collapsed into one so we can't use ellipsis? Commented Dec 8, 2011 at 19:34
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    Are these going to be edits (with history and all) or rewrites? The first is bearable and the second is annoying and broken. Commented Dec 8, 2011 at 19:36
  • FWIW I seem to spend 20% of my working days editing titles. Any [c++] or [php] regular will back me up there. :) Commented Dec 8, 2011 at 20:04
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    If that last footnote is meant to be a jab at me, I'd consider looking at the votes on the multiple "problem" questions, conversations on chat (one, two, three, four), etc. It's not like I am the only one who thinks that "feature" should be toned down a bit. The community, including moderators from various SE sites seems to agree with me. Commented Dec 8, 2011 at 20:09
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    ?! and similar collapsed into ? Wait, no interrobang love‽ Commented Dec 8, 2011 at 20:23
  • @TheUnhandledException - what you tend to see is "Why this no work?!?!??!?!!"; it is the rare user who actually means interrobang (also, I hate it along with fun :p). I would also like to say that NullUserException's comment is so hilariously illustrative of my footnote I almost took it as satire. Commented Dec 8, 2011 at 20:30
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    @KevinMontrose Yes, it's occasionally helpful. We get it (one, two, three). But like Gilles said, this is like saying we shouldn't have ramps next to staircases, because wheelchairs are the exceptional case. Commented Dec 8, 2011 at 20:52
  • I can't imagine this causing problems - It's not like questions on trigraphs or variadic functions or null coalescing get asked that often, anyways ;) Commented Dec 8, 2011 at 21:34
  • @BlueRaja - clarified, of your 6 questions only 1 will be re-written under the new rules. And then it will be improved, unambiguously. Commented Dec 8, 2011 at 21:37
  • @KevinMontrose bug found, if you can look into it it's great: meta.stackexchange.com/q/216890/152859 :) Commented Jan 21, 2014 at 8:36
  • Example question that suffered because of this: replicate and. The r operator ... was stripped from it. I've inverted the sentence. Commented Aug 5, 2015 at 20:32
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    @KevinMontrose : I don’t think a post title ending by a` !`provide a strong signal of a bad title in the case of a feature-request. Commented Jan 12, 2016 at 14:29