I find your Italics or bold text silently becoming not Italics or bold because my browser doesn't support EM or STRONG fine. I don't find characters disappearing to be graceful enough, even for just quote characters. Quote characters can have a significant effect on meaning.

If there were a set of HTML tags that didn't get filtered but didn't get listed in some official list of PerlMonks-approved HTML tags, then I'd be less strongly opposed to Q being in such a list. There is no such list. I consider it a very bad idea to promote the use of a tag that is likely to lead to confusion for a large fraction (a majority?) of our users.

Some elitist label of "not modern" doesn't hold much sway with me. A large fraction of users is still a large fraction of users.

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts (graceful) by tye
in thread INS, DEL, Q tags now allowed in posts by ambrus

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