@huitema @mattblaze In precisely the same way that its UI decided that me banging on the keyboard for swear characters was a superscript!

@huitema @mattblaze That doesn't actually solve the problem, which is that I was responding to a private message, and ... something in the UI made my post a public one. I discovered that when someone not mentioned fave'd it.

I assume the same UI would have ^&*() me either way.

@mattblaze

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The magic words are "users fault"

Goddamn "private mention" is hard to use safely.

@thedarktangent Seriously. IRC.

@thedarktangent ICR. (I Can’t Recall)

No wait. Almost?

@mcc Real pros — like me — — — put mdashes around their mdashes.