Browsers should have a "paste as markdown" function for pasting formatted text.
But the worst I see of people misusing Markdown for anti-semantic visual formatting is `` in place of bold/emphasis & the fix when corrected
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sorry, I let some recent pain leech across into our conversation as incredulity, not helping the flow at all. Beg your pardon.
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the point I should have made was that people using Markdown "correctly" depending very much on their choice of implementation.
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and the point I wanted to make after that was that the virtue of minimized divergence was mostly a side effect...
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...of how little Markdown actually tried to specify and solve. ie. its virtue is specifying a deliberately constrained domain.
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Yes, I also suspect the deliberately constrained domain is what prevents abuse.
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