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1 point by sacado 6028 days ago | link | parent

That is normal. I don't know why, however, but you can read it when clicking the help link :

"Blank lines separate paragraphs.

Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

Text surrounded by asterisks is italicized, if the character after the first asterisk isn't whitespace.

Urls become links, except in the text field of a submission."



1 point by eds 6028 days ago | link

Hmmm... that seems rather inconsistent to me. Why would links in initial submissions not be automatically converted to links?

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4 points by tokipin 6027 days ago | link

probably to discourage commenting about URL submissions, which would confuse voting for the article (nice URL, shitty comment,) give a higher presentation priority to the submitter's comment, muddy up the analysis of the URL, and prematurely guide conversation

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4 points by cchooper 6028 days ago | link

Maybe to encourage people to use the url submission feature, rather than putting the link in the text? (just a guess)

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