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But that's precisely the point of wakabamark -- that you don't have to know the formatting to use it. People naturally write *like this* for emphasis in plain text, and use > to lead into a quote. Markdown has a lot of extra shit in it that screws up posts when you're not expecting it, but for the most part wakabamark tends to stay out of the way (unless you're writing
line noise valid Perl code).
BBcode is ridiculous. It forces people to learn a new way to make text bold, even if they already know HTML, and it doesn't save a damn thing. The only reason UBB even invented that abomination is so they could apply a shitty regex to posts to convert [(b|i|u)\](.*?)[/\1\] to <$1>$2</$1> without allowing for injection attacks with other tags, and when they made it more complicated (with [url] and the like) it defeated its own purpose. Just use HTML and sanitize it properly, that way people who know HTML already know what they're doing, and those who don't know it are actually learning something USEFUL instead of a stupid halfassed subset of HTML with a new syntax that only works on message boards, and which is implemented differently from one board to another.