> novice users Non-programmers, really. Most people who write in Paper see the markdown as a shortcut, not the underlying truth. This sort of interface for Red

> novice users Non-programmers, really. Most people who write in Paper see the markdown as a shortcut, not the underlying truth. This sort of interface for Reddit comments would lower the barrier to entry fairly substantially. Leaving `#` characters at the start of headings would annoy people more than the ¶ marks in Word. "Why is there this gunk in my text? How do I get rid of it?"