Quotation Marks Usage
The cluster revolves around debates and complaints about the proper use of quotation marks in Hacker News comments, including distinctions between curly quotes, straight quotes, backticks, and scare quotes. Commenters criticize incorrect quoting styles and discuss typography best practices.
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Sample Comments
Those aren't scare quotes, they're quotation quotes.
That's not how quote marks work.
Please don't use that quoting style for non-code.
Should really use quote marks I guess.
wrong quotes used ” as opposed to "
Why put it in "quotes"?
Your keyboard has quotation marks on it. Why not use them?
That's why it's in quotes.
We've added quotation marks to disambiguate that.
And the quoting is odd as well.