A standoff between the site and some of its most devoted users exposes an existential dilemma.
I had thought those where your words at first, you can quote like this;
These people who are mad, they’re mad because they used to get something for free, and now it’s going to be not free. And that free comes at the expense of our other users and our business. That’s what this is about. It can’t be free.
I’m struggling to show you what symbol it is without it turning into a quote, so here’s a picture of the greater than symbol;
Oh, nice! So I set the quote in between the greater then and less then symbols and it will show the quote? That is pretty cool. Thank you.
Not quite I think. I believe this uses markdown, which just uses the > at the beginning of a line
> This is a quote
should become
This is a quote
And if you need more lines, you just keep symboling
> 1
> 2
> 3
1
2
3
You don’t need multiple unless you want to quote paragraphs, see my comment further down
And I believe you can do a multi line quote with 3:
>>> hello darkness my old friend
I’ve come to speak with you again
More
Lines
hello darkness my old friend
I’ve come to speak with you again
More
Lines
Unless I’m wrong and this isn’t actually working
Hmm well that looks like it worked too well
> test
With
Several
Lines
test
With
Several
Lines
To display formatting characters without having them actually affect formatting, put a backslash in front of them. Like this:
\>
That produces this:
>