Re: My code is most likely broken because:

[bliako]

There are so far 25 comments (08/11/2018) and already 9 counts of the word i-d-i-o-t.

While the vote tally gives "I am an idiot" more than a third of the votes, and to "they just keep finding better idiots [than me presumably]" only a twentieth of the votes.

I have for a few minutes contemplated if this site was instead called PoliceMonks, BankMonks or even SportfanMonks, each founded by and dedicated to the corresponding, namesake group of fellow human beings. It looks to me that the count of "I am an idiot" would be an absolute zero.

p.s. In escaping an open-square-bracket I used [. Lazy to look the reference again, I guessed that \ would be its closing counterpart. But I guessed wrong, it is ]. Someone is an idiot.

[Eily]

"they just keep finding better idiots [than me presumably]"

It's a reference to the quote "If you make something idiot-proof, someone will just make a better idiot." So it's either someone stupid beyond what you can yourself be, or stupid beyond the idiots you have encountered so far

About the ] thing. It only needs to be escaped when it comes after a [ so as long as the left bracket is properly escaped, the right one can be bare.

[bliako]

thanks for the info. Even an idiot can learn one new thing every day! generally speaking...