Unfortunately, “We don’t think html is cool enough” is too long. Actually, I think markdown has some improvements over html, but I’m not sure having two sets of habits is worth it.
It’s not a matter of coolness, but resistance to abuse. Unrestricted HTML is not an option for comments, because it can contain Javascript, or formatting that breaks the entire page. A restricted subset of HTML could be allowed, but it would be about as complicated to support as Markdown is. Support for Markdown came free with the Reddit code base, but adding restricted HTML as an option would be a nontrivial project.
Agreed on “formatting help” as the link name, but HTML is bad news for making up content. It’s way more verbose than Markdown, and I would much prefer not to manually insert paragraph tags. Besides, Github uses Markdown for readmes now, so I can see it becoming something of a standard (if it isn’t already).
I think relabeling it would help more than moving it, but moving it might help.
Relabeling is a good idea—I had no idea it was for formatting help, and have thus ignored it in the past.
Change it to “How To Quote”.
No, I’m voting for “formatting help”.
Unfortunately, “We don’t think html is cool enough” is too long. Actually, I think markdown has some improvements over html, but I’m not sure having two sets of habits is worth it.
It’s not a matter of coolness, but resistance to abuse. Unrestricted HTML is not an option for comments, because it can contain Javascript, or formatting that breaks the entire page. A restricted subset of HTML could be allowed, but it would be about as complicated to support as Markdown is. Support for Markdown came free with the Reddit code base, but adding restricted HTML as an option would be a nontrivial project.
Agreed on “formatting help” as the link name, but HTML is bad news for making up content. It’s way more verbose than Markdown, and I would much prefer not to manually insert paragraph tags. Besides, Github uses Markdown for readmes now, so I can see it becoming something of a standard (if it isn’t already).