Get rid of those annoying extra ' ' characters

Question

Always use the &lt; escape instead of a literal '<', even in [code] blocks. Otherwise, the forum software will try to help you out by throwing in a '>' to balance it. It usually inserts the character at the end of the post, but if there's another '<' anywhere in the post, it puts the '>' just before that. Which makes it real fun when you're trying to talk about something like   public <T extends Comparable<T>> List<List<T>> getList() ... Oops! that was supposed to be   public <T extends Comparable<T>> List<List<T>> getList() ... And I've just discovered that, if you preview your post and go back to edit it, you'll find all of the HTML escapes have been changed into the literal characters, and you have to escape them all again. Every day is a new adventure around here.

Answer 1

Some fora turn into a straight mess
because of their users.That's why we were so outraged when admins activated
smilies and images all that pudu. It's almost
impossible not to abuse those features.My emphasis was on "this forum however ...". Some entities destroy
themselves without any help from outer space ;-)
kind regards,
Jos