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Re:State of MetaFilter by dredmorbius on Monday May 19, 2014 @07:38PM (#7770463)
What hurts both G+ (and HN) is the absence of a specific blockquote markdown.

None of italicize everything quoted, "put quotes in quotes (especially for long passages)", nor > prefix quotes with a greater-than sign work particularly well IMO. Though I suppose they generally suffice.

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Re:State of MetaFilter by dublinben on Monday May 19, 2014 @08:18PM (#7770602)
Blockquotes have been supported in markdown as the ">" prefix since the very beginning. It's a mystery that HN doesn't support it when even reddit does.
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Re:State of MetaFilter by dredmorbius on Monday May 19, 2014 @08:19PM (#7770605)
Precisely my point. I've raised the issue specifically with Yonatan Zunger, and got a very typical Google NIH response.
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