It doesn't use Markdown(TM)* , but I have often seen "markdown" used as an informal term for the stripped down text formatting available in comments on websites

It doesn't use Markdown(TM)* , but I have often seen "markdown" used as an informal term for the stripped down text formatting available in comments on websites. It's probably technically incorrect, but I'm not aware of a more accurate but similarly short name for it. * I'm not actually sure Markdown is trademarked Also, it turns out that you can't even escape asterisks with a \, you need to leave whitespace after them. So my original comment was doubly wrong.