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The OP's point is that it might be better if HN allowed slightly more formatting than it does. Personally, while I wouldn't want full-bore HTML, I'd like to see

The OP's point is that it might be better if HN allowed slightly more formatting than it does. Personally, while I wouldn't want full-bore HTML, I'd like to see a more substantial subset of Markdown[1] supported. Your own examples of tables, lists, and block quotes would look a lot better if they were, you know, actual tables, lists, and block quotes. [1]: Markdown isn't perfect, but it's pretty well-known, and by design mimics a lot of conventions that came from plain text email to start with.

u801e 7y ago
> Your own examples of tables, lists, and block quotes would look a lot better if they were, you know, actual tables, lists, and block quotes. I would agree with what you said about tables (which, in my experience, is an uncommon use case), but the rest can easily be rendered in plain text. Block quotes, in particular, could be done by indenting the text by several spaces (or a tab), just like it's done on HN.