To each their own. To me, it feels like somebody is always coming out with some new markup/markdown/plaintext formatting syntax every couple years and I have to relearn everything anyway so I guess my preference is just to have consistency on the sites I go to (so I can completely understand if you still use some BBS threads and have to change it up here). I used to know BBS and XWiki syntax at some point, but I mostly have forgotten them at this point.
I like markdown, but I am probably biased since I am a programmer and it is used in code repositories for creating readme files and is somewhat ubiquitous on the web with more popular sites like reddit using it as well as more niche sites like SG or naturalcrit.homebrewery (dnd homebrew templating site). If I have a complaint about markdown, it's that there isn't any commonly agreed upon standards (there are at least 3 or 4 different variations of it)... not a big deal for SG/reddit but kind of annoying for programming because different editors will support different flavors. I think what I like most about it though is that I generally have a few less characters to type than with other systems but maybe its just me or I am mis-remembering things again. :-)
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Nothing useful to you, you mean? It's easy to escape markdown with \
. #See?
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I demand that we change everything to written in LaTeX in emacs but specifically through a bash script running an ssh tunnel through another machine.
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I TYPE IN ALL CAPS NOW. I THINK IT'S QUIRKY AND ENDEARING, MAKES ME STAND OUT ONLINE.
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Not going to happen but I know what you mean. Never been a fan of all those custom syntaxes, HTML is a standard and so easy to use, why bother with 10 poor copycats?
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