# Message board formatting question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-formatting-question/940105>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 15, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-formatting-question/940105 "2021-04-15T21:19:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2021, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-formatting-question/940105/5 "2021-04-16T16:25:44Z")

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[This post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/post-format-reference-documentation/19197/2) on the Discourse forums from @codinghorror describes the basics, although it certainly isn’t a reference (I don’t believe there is one for this). We also covered a lot of the cool stuff in [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-post-a-unicode-shrug/939655) on ATMB.

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