Last modified: 2012-04-11 21:18:39 UTC
in the text below tit for tat is missing a ' on the left (or has one too much on the right) this causes the ''' after "relatedness" to be interpreted as ' '' confounding the user as to what's going on. please enjoy the sample: I have come to see the main issue in bringing new users into the community is one of '''relatedness'''. To explain my theory - In a hive or a nest eusocial life forms like bees use chemical sinatures to recognise hive members from forign intruders. In Wikipedia users make use of behvioral signatures. The '''behavioral signatures''' used in recognition develops though iterated ''editing games'' in whihc the dominting startegy is ''tit for tat'''. To pick up the eusocial metaphor. Since I'm by now familier with parsing this syntax and with and Bug 930 my recommendation: If you cannot fix this - it cannot be done in regex. Then it should be mentioned in the Help pages that the '' must be perfectly ballanced or chaos will ensue in the hive.
I think its unlikely that the behvaiour of ''' will be changed. We can't read minds to determine what the actual intent of the user was, and any change will probably break for people relying on old behaviour p.s. Love the bug name.
