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Figure 1 Figure 2. For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/layman?s=t For more information on String Theory - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory

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Well, yeah... but if I said that, this post would run straight into the cess pit in which politicians exist. Small town councils are filled with your bloviating neighbors and political wanna-bes.

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@Carlos Hazday, I was ready to start reading more of your stuff until I found out about the blankets...

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I have a comment, but since it would require a whole boatload of trigger warnings AND be placed in The Pit, I won't.

Tags and content warnings have nothing to do with each other at all. Tags are a way to sort stories for particular content. Content warnings are notes placed by the author in the story and/or the chapter for specific items that are known to cause issue with some people. Audience rating is pretty much the standard everywhere and how to rate the story is included in the FAQ for posting a story.

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Well, I've never stopped that...

Congratulations to @Valkyrie for such a tempting word. For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/recrudescence?s=t

I am not a fan of content warnings either. However, a significant enough population of our members desires them and they are only a minor inconvenience, if that, to the author. If you don't like them, ignore them. If you do like them, read them.

It's subtle. The editor is exactly the same in the Stories system as here. The editor takes what you put into it. When you are not remotely technically savvy, such as your example of a link to an 82 yo author, you get what you get. The display portion of stories actively strips out excessive double spacing and a number of other common issues to try to correct for bad inputs from the members. In an ideal situation, an author can copy their text from their word processor, paste into the editor, and then click the button that clears formatting. This would give the cleanest input. Unfortunately, a lot of people overuse italics and bold and would then have to manually put it back in. This is why we don't automatically strip formatting on paste. Some authors (not the one linked, to be clear) also ignore us when we tell them to use plain text with minimal formatting so that it shows up correctly in most browsers. When we remind them, they yell at us like we are somehow destroying their art. 10 years of that with self posting... and well... no... you want an author to fix something, reach out and help them fix it. We can't fix that problem from the system end. We've done as much as we can.