Plaintext is part of the agreement at HN, so that's an irrelevant question. Plaintext bigots love to assert that there's no communicative value in formatted or

Plaintext is part of the agreement at HN, so that's an irrelevant question. Plaintext bigots love to assert that there's no communicative value in formatted or colored text, but that doesn't make it true. The world has moved on. This argument was litigated and lost by the plaintext partisans when Clinton was president.