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And the "code" formatting for quotes is generally a bad choice because people read on a variety of screen sizes, and "code" formatting can screw that up (try reading the quote with a really narrow window).



I couldn't get any of the others work and I lost patience. I really do disline using Markdown variants as they never behave the same and "being surprised" is not really what I want when trying to post a comment.


Convention is to quote like this:

> This is my quote.

It's much better than using a code block for your readers.




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