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Re:Etsy Strike by SixDouble5321 on Monday April 11, 2022 @07:40PM (#30996650)
OK, but how do I surround a word with asterisks as an example to others without emphasizing the word inside?
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Re:Etsy Strike by systoll on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @02:32AM (#30999342)
A backslash before the asterisk makes it appear as an asterisk

\*this\* becomes *this*.

And before you ask, to show the backslash, you add another backslash. \\*this\\* becomes \*this\*

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Re:Etsy Strike by skrebbel on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:12AM (#31002192)
I did not know you could backslash-escape asterisks (TIL! thanks!), so I prepended it with 4 spaces to make a code block.
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