Comment by evil | Hacker News Reader

Comment by evil | Hacker News Reader

Thor Muller wrote:

You were angry, and honestly I don’t blame you. We all know what it’s like to feel manipulated. And while I would have preferred you sending us a note, or even posting it somewhere less trafficked than your popular blog, the fact is that Get Satisfaction is a huge proponent of public airing of grievances. You were right to bring it to our attention any way you saw fit. I only wish that you hadn’t implied inethical motives with words like “extortion,” “mafia shakedown,” etc. The fact is, many people hear those words and nothing else, and it compromises years of work by our small but committed team.

"Inethical"? That's not even a word!

Please stop doing that. Paul will never fix this bug, which gives any commenter the ability to force everyone to scroll horizontally.

Edit: I see that this style is in place, which should work:

  pre {
      overflow: hidden;
  }

but Mr. Graham's insistence on table-based layout thwarts this attempt to control user content (table cells stretch to accommodate their content).

User "evil" created two hours ago, and all three comments so far do this. A troll, someone unable to get better kicks.

I couldn't find a Greasemonkey script which fixes this, so I just wrote one.

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/45619

Is it just me or has this bug been addressed after the parent comment was posted? The page (as I see it) does not require horizontal scrolling any longer.

No, a moderator must have removed the two-space indent.

I think the comment was edited because looking at it now I don't see any long part that would potentially force scrolling.

    pre {
        white-space: pre-wrap;
    }

Install the Stylish Firefox extension and add this style.

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