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		Sephr on May 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Poll: What percentage of Hacker News users are pro... Sorry, I meant that it is a best practice to close them anyways because an invalid HTML comment inserted into blog served as XHTML doesn't go.

nostrademons on May 18, 2009 [–]

The blog really ought to validating user input, because there are many things worse than unclosed <p>s that can happen if it doesn't.

Of course, "ought to" and "does" are two different things...

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