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I just tried to emphasize something in text by wrapping it in asterisks with the intent of it looking like: blah blah blah **REALLYIMPORTANT** blah blah blah but the only way I could stop it from looking like blah blah blah REALLYIMPORTANT blah blah blah was to replace the asterisks with *'s because your "tips" page doesn't give anything about how to disable the misbegotten offspring of two elepanting sunshines that is the markdown engine or otherwise stop it from elephanting up what I was trying to post.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Uncheck the "Use Markdown formatting (Markdown formatting tips)" checkbox.
I'm rewriting the Markdown processor. The one we are using just doesn't cut it.
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Chris Maunder
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Judging by the number of complaints that have arisen, surely "Use Markdown formatting" should be unhecked by default. Let people opt in, rather than causing them to have to opt out.
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Agreed (until I've rewritten the processor).
Change will come into effect later today.
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Chris Maunder
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Ever heard of the "Microsoft way of testing ?" 
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You probably should have gone to default the markdown formatting usage to false. So people could have enabled it consciously instead of getting a surprise 
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no fair hiding it among a bunch of other settings I mentally edited out almost a decade ago because I never need to touch them.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Below the preview message: "Use Markdown formatting"?
(Test if **Test** works as intended)
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There correct link is here[^]
Where did you see that link?
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Chris Maunder
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When I edit my profile and try to update my Google+ profile ID and save, it's always broken. The system converts it to "httpsplusgooglecomu0PLiebscherposts". The URL I enter is https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PLiebscher/posts[^]. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Phil
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Don't enter the full URL, just your profile ID: PLiebscher
There's an example next to the box - the part you need to enter is in bold. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I've fixed it so that it recognises either format. You can enter https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PLiebscher/posts or +PLiebscher or even google.com/+PLiebscher.
I'll have the changes deployed soon.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thank you very much sir! 
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From the very beginning, when this feature was first introduced, I notices some inconsistency: when I report some bad question for abuse and see that the question is closes after refresh, the generated list of members was not always correct: sometimes, I saw just one member, which just cannot be the case, is some cases, I saw my name, in some other cases, I did not see it.
But today, for the very first time, I saw a member name listed twice in the same list, and it happened to be my name:
can anybody please help me[^].
It looks flattering, but something is wrong here.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Did you double click the mouse?
Programmer : A machine that converts coffee into code !
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I wonder why should I? I'm reporting on the page content on the page refresh after abuse reporting, not result of some click.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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The list of reporters is showing the list for all versions of that item. You reported the item when the item was at version 3, then again at version 4.
It's accurate, but confusing.
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Chris Maunder
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That makes sense, but really looks confusing.
And how it explains the absence of the reporting member when I observe that the question is auto-closed after immediate page refresh? Are you saying that I reported on earlier version, and then, before I refresh the page, someone added new version, and then someone also managed to report the abuse one more time, which lead to the closing of the post? It does not look too likely, considering the fact the it is observed often.
Wouldn't it be more logical and simpler to accumulate the list of all reporting members from all version? My logic behind it is: this is because the software performs the closing of the question based on accumulated reports, not based on reports per version.
All right, thank you for the explanation. Anyway, this is really a minor issue, more of a confusion.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov wrote: this is really a minor issue, more of a confusion
I've fixed, and will deploy the fix later today.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Great, thank you.
—SASergey A Kryukov
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Most probably not a bug but my stupid me: The signature that I entered in my profile-settings doesn't show in my forum posts. When I re-open my settings, it's there. I couldn't find anything in a FAQ about it - what am I missing?
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Fixed
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Thanks, Chris! 
While I have your attention, may I remind you of this suggestion of mine: QA-Solution-Posts by QA-Inquirers[^]
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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