[Discussion] Why isn't there a horizontal rule?

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Am 23.09.21 um 02:58 schrieb Draco Metallium(Rodrigo S. Cañibano):
> Hi!
>
> I was going to send a long and passionate defence for the inclusion of
> the horizontal rule (or "The Thematic Break" according to mozilla web
> docs) when a line started with three hyphens. 

Personally I don't feel the need for it, except I use such like a construct to seperate my footer from the text:

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back

I use the longer Unicode dashes for that. My idea about this topic is: If it is not needed in written books, why should it be needed in written online texts. But I was wrong, sometimes a kind of seperator is used in literature, like e.g.:

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Ciao
Martin

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