Asterisk footnotes

[Aaron Swartz]

I hereby invoke Gruber's Law to say we've got a problem with asterisk
footnotes and so on. I have occasionally seen people write:


> "Now is the time for all good men to light the wick of their candle with my own

> without the aide of government sponsorship."

>

>  - Thomas Jefferson


and the attribution becomes a bullet point. But even more frequent is this:


> But most of all, samy is my hero*. As if you didn't know! Heh.

> It's not like anybody's telling me to say this, you know. I really

> think that.

>

> * samy may not actually be my hero.


and the asterisk footnote becomes a bullet point.

And since me and my friends have fallen prey to this, action must be taken!