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I guess it's just that people aren't familiar with Markdown yet, so it's going to take a while before people realise what is going to happen when they have multiple ` in a line, or multiple * in a line... i.e. strange mysterious things.
Would it be possible to reduce the markdown that is processed to the most commonly understood and accepted subset - e.g bold, italics, m-dashes, etc?
Markdown wasn't a particularly good choice for a social forum. That you are forced to learn the Markdown syntax in order to avoid your text being marked up is a fundamental usability issue. At least with bbcode you need to explicitly mark up your posts in order to style them. You can't do it by accident. Markdown might be popular among geeks but it isn't suited to general purpose posts by a non technical community.
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Drakien
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From a Markdown perspective, that is code.
The real issue is that someone is using backticks ` as apostrophes.
Or their keyboard is doing this. That kind of thing used to happen all the time when Microsoft Word was the editor of choice for email(!).
I guess it's just that people aren't familiar with Markdown yet, so it's going to take a while before people realise what is going to happen when they have multiple ` in a line, or multiple * in a line... i.e. strange mysterious things.