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[–] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But clearly you start with the asterisk

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've always been asterisk at the end, but mostly because it's easier for me to type that way.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Asterisk starts a bullet list in a lot of richtext fields that use markdown

[–] pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

What kind of heathen doesn't?

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

No, you edit the message so that the typo has a * after it, since asterisks indicate a footnote. Then you post the corrective message with the asterisk at the beginning.

[–] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 5 points 23 hours ago

Just edit the original message with [sic]

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

This is the way.