Comment by dang
4 hours ago
There used to be a commenter here who would end all his comments with a closing paren, even though there had not been an opening paren. It led to a surprising number of flamewars! )
Edit: hmm, I couldn't really find any flamewars, but it did lead to objections:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4765943 (Nov 2012)
It's a cultural difference thing: https://russian.stackexchange.com/questions/13142/what-do-or...
Hilarious. To fix this, one would have needed to put an open parenthesis in a sibling comment and hope to get upvoted more than the comment with the closing parent.
That's demonic.