Do not use carats ^^^^ to respond

It usually means that you're replying to the post directly preceding - you're pointing upward.

Do not use the incorrect word "carat." How's that? Go back to elementary school. How embarrassing for you.

^*^*^*^*^^*

🥕🥕🥕

Carets.

But you can send me all the carats you want.

Take that carat out of your ass, OP.

I made orange-glazed carats for dinner.

^^^ And I had carrot-colored soup. What a small world!

I have a diamond carat stud earring.

🦜🦜🦜🦜 ?? better??

Amen. Stop it, you stupid boomer bitches - learn to use the R.

^^^ I don't get it, R10?

R10:

Carrot

Parrot

^^^^ What does Reply 10 mean?

^^^ Ah, I get it. Thanks.

OP, thank you for letting us know.

[quote] ^^^^

Don't feel too bad, OP. You can never win on Datalounge.

^^^^^ Never!

OP how humiliating for you. Wow.

Egad, it's threads like these that make the Datalounge worthwhile!

I baked some pumpkin today, and it's orange.

Does that count??

^^ yes

Well, someone had stated her boundaries!!

Stop being a cunt, OP.

C^NT

Nobody is going to say "caret" just so you remain the butt of yokes, OP

Carets are magic.

^^^^^the butt of yolks? Why bring eggs into this?

r14, it means I didn't have a ferret emoji🍊🍊

^-^ (=' . '=)

I'm clairvoyant. ∇

^^^^yolks can be orange.

Obviously, they count too!

[quote] It usually means that you're replying to the post directly preceding

but what if someone sneaks in and responds before you? then you're f'd and your carrots don't work

OP's heart IS in the right place.

🐰🐰🐰

they heard there were carrots

[quote] ^^^^^^^^^

I use both. I'm FANCY.

^^^ same here ^^^

^^ this guy gets it ^^

actually, so does this guy >>>

<<<< but not that guy. he's a cunt.

[quote] Do not use carats ^^^^ to respond

But diamonds are a girl's best friend!

^^^ fuck off

Oh, who am i talking to??

∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨∨ what he said

I am kind of embarrassed that I looked for a down arrow for like, 2 minutes and never thought vvv. Or, VVV if we're being adults. 💫💫

[quote]r1 It usually means that you're replying to the post directly preceding

[quote]r34 but what if someone sneaks in and responds before you? then you're f'd and your carrots don't work

It has happened to most, if not all, of us [bold]: ([/bold]

You just have to develop that hard core… learn to rooooolllllll with the punches.

"And they call ME a bitch"

[quote]I am kind of embarrassed that I looked for a down arrow for like, 2 minutes and never thought vvv.

VVVivian VVVance would have known.

i WW'ed you r46. Hard WW's

Thanks - I like it hard.

Don't we all 💅

[quote] It has happened to most, if not all, of us : (

Or just don't use carrots.

Problem solved@!

r43, *I'm* actually r42 who used a Mathematical Symbol from the special characters you get when pressing the Windows key + (period).

I am so impressed r51 et al (not sarcasm). I am on android🤖

I’m wondering what I can do with these >>

and these <<

^^ O O ii

[quote] I’m wondering what I can do with these >>

[quote] and these <<

Point accusingly on DL. After all that's why we're here.

I am guessing you will be told to shove them in your ✳️ ⭕ by less savory people r53

[quote] I am on android

And how many other meds?

OP must have hated this film.

^^^ I'm not kn Reddit ^^^

I sometimes use carets if I think there's a good chance I'll get my response posted to the exact one I'm referring to, before someone "sneaks in" and ruins the deal. I'm usually successful but occasionally someone beats me to the post(should that be a literal or figurative post?) 🤔

r32 Pleased to meet you, Clair. How are you and all the Voyants doing this fine day? 😊

Alea jacta est

Bonus fundus difficile est invenire.

Muriel is the OP, and also the poster who seems to move posts when it fills up, no one is doing your WFH fucking job you fat unloved cunt, and Muriel is a female cunt, you can tell. You also get timeouts if you're bad, it's selective.

Wow R63, meth much?

Wow r64 stupid cunt much? Go fuck yourself on a gear shift

^^^ FUCK OFF ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

^^^OP, I will post exactly how I please.

DO AS I SAY! I AM THE BOSS OF YOU!!

^^^That wasa funny.

^^^was funny

^^^^I'm the boss^^^^

^^^^ To R71, U think U R the Boss^^^^

Why do you caret what I type in my post, OP?

^^^^^I don't carat all. Do you?^^^^^

^&^^^ this is why we can't have nice things

I want a caret deep inside me.

I had a roommate on my floor freshman year who used a carrot for masterbating. She was pretty upfront about it. Smart move because nobody touched any of her food after that became known.

^^ me too ^^

R77, how were her spelling skills?

I hope it was an organic carrot, r77.

🥕 🥕 🥕

R81, I know Rescue Chick (r4). I worked with Rescue Chick. Rescue Chick is a friend of mine. You, sir, are no Rescue Chick.

Put karats on your shopping list.

🐶❤️🐶

R82, I said nothing about rescue chic, only about 🥕 🥕 🥕 🥕 ^^^^^^

They're fine if your post gets in right under the one your carating. But all too many times someone sneaks in a post when you least expect it.

^^^ yes but you never know. SO DONT USE THEM

Or…. [italic]live dangerously!

Sorry… meant to include:

^^

^^ why not ^^^

Just leaving this here:

[bold]^^

I loved ^^^^Carat-Anne^^^^ in Poltergeist.

Boldface, please… please, Boldface! If you need anything, ask Caret Ann!

Ring Christmas bells, merrily ring...

R11, I try to use the R.

However, when I refer to someone else’s post, it sets off an alarm that might give false hope of WW. I usually WW - but sometimes I don’t

^^^^↑↑↑↑↓↓′′°°↑↑↓↑√↑↑↑ You could use the arrow, who knew it was there!!! Hold the key down and see the magic!!!!

↑↑↑↑↑↑↑

OMG!

I've seen porn where they didn't mind using carats and cucumbers and once a moderate zucchini!

[quote] OMG

Dyatlov right?

R43, I would have looked for five minutes then given up.

^!^!^!^!^!^

[quote]r96 Hold the key down and see the magic!!!!

Which key on iPhone?

^^^ they're heeeerreee ^^^^

the sky ^^^^^^ is falling

How can I make my favorite salad if I don't use carats??

Meatloaf requires carats.

F🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥&🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥🐦‍🔥F

We'll respond however we please.

Carat Cake for all.

[quote] Carat Cake for all.

But champagne for Lulu.

^^^ OP, this thread didn't go the way you thought it would, did it? ↑↑↑

^^^ If you could 🖕

Over there >>>

That’d be 👍

SIKE!!!!!

OP is such a K^ren!

^^^^OP is a Karat^^^^ OMG-NOOOOOOO^^^^

Ok, Dad.

R115, I think you mean K^ret

It’s pretty obvious that when someone uses ^^^^^ they are talking directly to the person above them, DUH.

^^^You mean like this?

^^^^^

Like this.

^^ Or more like this ^^ ? ^^

^^ this, right here

[quote] It’s pretty obvious that when someone uses ^^^^^ they are talking directly to the person above them, DUH.

It's NOT obvious, since you don't know if someone will sneaky in and post before you, DUH

OP does raise a valid point, people. We need some proper guidelines. I'm with OP here. Four is clearly too many! I find three to be sufficient.

^^^ I have sufficient.

See? Much more elegant and simple.

^^^That does happen but most people can figure out from the content, obviously

To R125, ^^^^Are you sure about Dat^^^^

carat = a measure of the weight of a diamond

karat = a measure of the purity of gold in parts of 24

caret = the symbol ^ most often used in editing to show where something will be inserted

Now, just to add a bit of spice, in the UK carat is used for both and karat considered a spelling error or an Americanism.

[quote] That does happen but most people can figure out from the content, obviously

WRONG

What if I post ^^^ is an idiot

But then someone posts before I hit post?

Then all is lost, and I've insulted the wrong idiot.

Though since most here are idiots I guess my odds are pretty good.

Just use reply number.

What a surprise when I found out you weren’t a guy

Before my very eyes

Who is not a guy?

Seeeeee how it makes no sense when you don't use the quote feature

[quote]R123 It's NOT obvious, since you don't know if someone will sneaky in and post before you, DUH

And what of it? Data Lounge’s Maiden Aunts are made of [italic]stern stuff! [/italic]For instance, your typo “sneaky in” (above) delights as, as we can now point out how retarded you appear. To the whole world!

So no great loss, should a glitch appear. We’ve certainly been up against worse.

^^ oh dear.

I came with the trend in 2021 and I’m glad it caught up, yes it’s obvious R123 because we can actually see a new comment that’s uploaded onto the thread as we are still type, and if someone gets in between our comment and the person above, all we have to do is to write another comment to clarify it, for example : I meant you R 10 not you R 11.

It’s that simple, and sometimes not even necessary because other people would be able to infer that we are actually replying to R 10 and not R 11.

Obviously if you are R 25 and you want to reply to R 20 the carets don’t work, but people know when to use them.

R74, the correct format is -

^^ make your statement ^^

^^ that goes for you, too ^^ R124

^^ I am a busy, busy bee, and I do not have time to type out 4 carettes

Lots of sloppy tops on this thread.

How 'bout them transparent dangling carats?

How 'bout that ever-elusive kudo?

^^ agreed ^^

Perfect example of the stupidity of using carats at R76 in this thread.

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There’s nothing wrong with the example r141 linked to.

This innocuous and long-standing practice has become some strange fixation for him.

R20 is very embarrassed. His face is red like boiled octopus.

Scrolling along silently, like a soft butch sous chef, just admiring a classic DL free-for-all!!!

….

Another example of carat use gone wrong.

Look at R21 in this thread.