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   Christopher Trottier (atomicpoet@firefish.city)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 17:40:46 JST Christopher Trottier

   I now understand why people use fenced code blocks in Markdown. It’s because if you don’t, people will think they’re seeing code as a result of an error in their webpage rendering.
   
   This possibility never occurred to me until someone complained that a post of mine was “unreadable”. They thought they weren’t supposed to see the HTML.

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     Christopher Trottier (atomicpoet@firefish.city)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 17:40:53 JST Christopher Trottier

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     For the record, the original post was in plain text, not markdown. I changed the format to markdown and used fenced code blocks so people would know that the intent was for people to see the HTML and JavaScript code.