@davehawley
Yes, but honestly, why should I have to?!
What you type should be what you get. It is on every single other forum I use except this one.
Not at all.
Every decent forum has its ways to format text and do other stuff. How on earth should it be supposed to be not using certain reserved symbols??
There are regular characters - that which are used in ''normal'' language typing, right? Letters and punctuation marks. Agreed some of the latter are reserved here too, as well as ''not normal'' characters - like asterisc etc. But still.
Seriously???
Agreed that there's certain duplicating using both underscores and asteriscs for the same. However, it follows HTML standard - it's THERE where there is such duplicacy: they have their "strong" and other "schmong" which usually do exactly the same things - but they ''THINK'' they're reserving those in case some day in the future blah-blah-blah or some other schiit.