On: Show HN: Hacker News em dash user leaderboard pre-ChatGPT

[Moru]

Maybe the HN crowd is the wrong group for such statistics, a higher percentage here probably knows how to use their keyboard and OS.

[perihelions → Moru]

I remember participating in a small thread on how to type an em-dash, on different OS's. It was in March 2023, so before the em-dash meme had started—it was an innocent question then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35118338#35118598

[dns_snek → Moru]

I think they meant after the release of ChatGPT. If someone never used them before and now uses them all the time it might indicate that they're using ChatGPT... or it might just mean that they learned how to use them after widespread discussions about it.

[withinboredom → dns_snek]

I use em-dashes now more than ever — mostly just to mess with people.

[brookst → withinboredom]

Certainly, it’s great fun to trigger the AI skeptics.

[Moru → brookst]

It's not AI skeptics, it's users that does not know how to type — and is vulnerable to hype.

[9rx → Moru]

Plus being nerdier in general. I, for one, purposely use it more often because of all the hoopla.

[firesteelrain → 9rx]

Burn him at the stake!