Hmm, and you believe that the tone of your post is going to give anonymonk a warm, fuzzy feeling and actually want to register? (for those tuning in late, Yve's orginal words were "Your post looks like crap", or words to that effect).

It would have been better to just signal the janitors to get them to come over and clean up. It's evident that the poster saw the absence of WYSIWYG, and, human frailty being what it is, glossed over the part about the tips.

For this kind of thing to occur so often leads me to believe that there is a grain of truth in what Jakob Nielsen has to say, the design of the site is in error, not the user.

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I think the heart of the problem is that most newcomers to the site don't realise that they must write in HTML or perish. While I have only marginal sympathy for a user of a techical site such as PM to understand naught about HTML, I can fully appreciate that there are any number of people who have either the time or inclination to learn it. It's our loss if they have a valuable contribution which is ignored.

When you are post anything here, there is absolutely no indication at all which suggests that you must use HTML, there is only the tips link. Maybe the Slash plain text/html/extrans method needs to be used. That has the advantage of being understood across a broader range of sites.