I would just go with more practice. If you really screw up, don't use advanced tags. Plain text would do. If you must need learn further, practice. Also, make some simple rules for yourself, that you can easily understand. Some type of cheat sheet would do too.
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Another point to consider, since this site deals with programming, it is best to keep the formatting rules to a functional minimum. That's because you don't want to accidentally preclude someone from *mentioning* how to write POD, or Wiki formatting because their input was mistakenly interpreted as *using* POD, or Wiki formatting.
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Sorry, I do not know, what you mean. The problem I actually have is (to be more concise), that I always write I<italic>!
Since I am pretty excited about Wiki format (and used to POD), I just wanted to find out about your thoughts on this topic.
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I totally agree with you.
PM already have wiki-type shortcuts, like [cpan://...]
While people argue that you can always use 'code' or 'p' HTML tags, I am pretty sure wiki-type marking up is much more easier, just skipping 2 lines is better than typing and debugging 'p' markup.
Unfortunately http://www.cpanforum.com/ even requires to be xhtml-compliant and to close 'p' tags!
IMHO this is serious design bug.
Best regards,
Courage, the Cowardly Dog
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Yes. This <p> thing is something I espacially dislike. Even though i have the impression of disagreement about my point, this is the node with my highest reputation. Which does not mean much, I know.
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high reputation of your current message is easy to explain: you have been frontpaged and from some moment you started receiving, at first, some 'blind' upvotes, but, at second, some thoughtfull upvotes also, since auditorium becomes something wider.
Why people dislike your node also easy to explain. Proposing to change somehthing on this site is considered a bad thing in general, and many people downvote even without reading.
However a point of 'not agreeing of introducing some wiki-type shortcuts that will do life of ordinary perlmonks much more easier' I consider as a quite not thoughtful decision.
(sorry for this lenghty hard-to-read sentence, I'm not good with English)
But beware explaining about XP system: it is most veto here, and I do agree that it is really not good to change.
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