Crossed out te

[patman post]

Thanks for the explanations — though I can't say I understand.

Strangely, when I try to copy one and reproduce it here the crossing-out disappears...

So I had a look https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/sunday/meghan-markle-prince-harry.html?searchResultPosition=56" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/opinion/sunday/meghan-markle-prince-harry.html?searchResultPosition=56

[Nalaar]

Maybe not. Stevlin managed to do this on 29th June. Can't think it was deliberate.
https://pol-tics.com/index.php/topic,150.msg30673.html#msg30673

Looking at that post it seems they tried to say "party(s)" but used the square bracket causing the strikeout.

[Barry]

Maybe not. Stevlin managed to do this on 29th June. Can't think it was deliberate.
https://pol-tics.com/index.php/topic,150.msg30673.html#msg30673

[Nalaar]

I think those are from posts before the forum move, so any threads with older posts will show striked-out text

[Barry]

In the interest of trying to boost the post count — can anyone explain why some posts have portions of their text crossed out? I've tried to work out a rationale (well, I've spent a couple of minutes wondering), but I cannot see a common factor at play...

Maybe because people sometimes hit the wrong formatting and hit the s when they mean to hit the u and underline something.

[patman post]

In the interest of trying to boost the post count — can anyone explain why some posts have portions of their text crossed out? I've tried to work out a rationale (well, I've spent a couple of minutes wondering), but I cannot see a common factor at play...