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> People will constantly be rewriting or deleting your questions or leaving unhelpful comments complaining about something silly like the formatting.

I will mercilessly soft-rewrite and spelling/formatting correct every question and answer into oblivion if I can be bothered, and find the issue annoying enough.

I treat SO like a Wikipedia of sorts, so presentation is important. Each topic will inevitably be read by a thousand other people in the future, so I might as well leave it looking presentable. It's a commons thing. "Don't leave trash behind and clean up if others didn't", basically.

Jeff Atwood explained this behavior as stemming from the fact that when you work with a computer all day, you kind of become one.

Source: https://youtu.be/KZkYSSE8HHI

Formatting doesn't seem like a silly consideration when we are talking about programming.