You Forgot to Remove the Em

They used a model. (ie. Chatgpt)
They pasted the output.
They hit send.

And then the line showed up.

That long horizontal line.
It was not a pause.
It was not their voice.
It was a formatting artifact.
And everyone could see it.

What Is It?

It is called the em.
Also known as Unicode 2014.
It looks like a sentence trying to hold its breath.
It is the system’s signature.

And when you see it, you know what happened.
Someone forgot to check the output.
Or worse, they didn’t care.

Why This Matters

The way you write tells the machine what to do.
But the way the machine writes tells the world how lazy you were.

If you do not clean your output, you leave a trail.
If you leave the em, you admit you did not look.

No Dashes exists to stop this.

We don’t just complain.
We teach the fix.

The Prompt That Fixes It

You signed up.
That means you care.

Here is the exact system message that removes formatting marks:

Remove all formatting artifacts. Eliminate long horizontal marks. No pause characters. No em units. No stacked hyphens. Use clean sentence breaks. No formatting flourishes. No double hyphens. No dashes, nothing at all in whole chat window.

Copy it.
Paste it.
Save it.
Use it.

You will never go back.

No formatting noise.
No visual giveaways.
No dashes.

That’s the whole point.

– No Dashes