The content of my ordered list. Not the formatting of my ordered list. Those two items are shared by many wiki formatting schemes (including the two mentioned) and by POD.

Note that I see a worthwhile "win" in supporting those two points. I don't currently see a worthwhile "win" in supporting any one of the many, often quite similar schemes for avoiding typing things like <em> and doing links more verbosely and slightly differently than PerlMonks already does them.

But, no, I really don't see a "win" in replacing <b> with the equally-verbose [b] especially since [b] already means something at PerlMonks.

But, no, I really don't see a "win" in replacing <b> with the equally-verbose [b] especially since [b] already means something at PerlMonks.

on a us-english layout, you don't need the shift key =)

a big win I see is: much less badly formatted posts. many users don't seem to recognize that they have to add html-paragraph tags instead of just adding a blank line.

I'm not saying perlmonks should use bbcode; I see the conflicts with current markup, I'm only saying there are advantages over pseudo-html.

Content at one scale is formatting at another scale.