@JackDouglas Yes, I like the further edit (I would have done the block quotes myself, but did not think of using the horizontal rule to divide the first two).

B-)

@JonEricson Now that there is a "real" SE.Meta, what chance of pushing on this one again:

Would love to see some style of [M↓] footnotes - PHP Markdown Extra's would be fine. Gets tiresome (and tricky) when editing/developing an answer (as I'm sure you're as aware as any). Thoughts?

@Davïd This is on my list of things to do. The big problem is that there's no standard for extending Markdown and we aren't in the business of creating them. Personally, I think Markdown lies pretty close to the core of our system and we need to make it less annoying to use. Other items on my wish list: link anchors, tables, and fenced code blocks.

@JonEricson let me get this straight: what you're saying is that if someone else develops Markdown extensions that accomplish these tasks, SE would be more likely to use them? ;)

@Daи Sortof.

@JonEricson well, if I extend this with a C# extension, will that increase the odds of it being used?

@Daи If GitHub, Meteor, Reddit, etc. use it, that would increase the odds.

@JonEricson ahh ic

oh well, was a fun thought anyways :P