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Comments are small addenda to each question or answer, intentionally limited in size and formatting and intended to prompt clarifying edits. Can also be used for comments on the blog posts.

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How can I format only part of a word in a comment?

Since comments gained the ability of some very limited formatting that's also a source of frustration involved. … ETA: Ok, in the comments I've been doing some testing. It appears that everything that's a space seems to work (suggests \s is used somewhere). …
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Comments don't have formatting tags or line breaks

Comments have no line breaks and generally no block-level formatting (such as extended blocks of code). …
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Code escaping in comments eats backslashes

While I sometimes stumble over things where the normal formatter and the one in the comments disagree on the grave accent, such as: * `abc`def * `\`g` Maybe it even is useful (though I can't see where …
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