"0 of 1 people found this review helpful, you did not." would be a run-
on sentence. It requires either a semi-colon, a period, or a conjunction
like "but" (but "but" would suggest that you weren't one of the
"people", when you were).
Conversely, "1 of 1 people found this review helpful; including you."
would end with a fragment: anything before or after a semi-colon should
make sense alone, but "including you" does not. That sentence requires
either a comma, or splitting into two sentences. The latter would
involve adding more words to complete the second sentence, e.g. "You
were one of them.", and would accidentally make it mock-serious. ("The
world was full of zombies. You were one of them.")
So, with wording similar to the current wording, the strings can't use
the same punctuation unless they both switch to periods, and if they did
that, the second string would get noticably longer.
Since one of these strings is used for every review, I tried to keep
them as short as possible to avoid monotony, and used whatever
punctuation necessary to do that. If you have a suggestion that would
make the punctuation consistent without lengthening the text, I'd be
delighted to review it, but at the moment I don't have reason to believe
that it's possible. :-)
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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