Features
Writing comments
The Markdown formatting available to commenters, and how comment content is processed.
Comments support a small, useful subset of Markdown. This page is written for commenters, so feel free to link to it from your site, and it doubles as the reference for what ends up stored and displayed.
Supported formatting
| You write | You get |
|---|---|
**bold** | bold |
*italic* | italic |
[a link](https://example.com) | a link |
`inline code` | inline code |
```code block``` | a code block |
> quoted text | a quotation |
- item | a bulleted list |
1. item | a numbered list |
A single line break becomes a visible line break, so replies read the way they were typed, without Markdown's usual double-space dance.
What happens to your comment
All rendering happens on the server, and the result is sanitized before storage:
- Raw HTML is escaped, not interpreted. Writing
<b>hi</b>displays the tags as text. Only the Markdown above produces formatting. - Links are neutralized for abuse: every link opens in a new tab and carries
rel="nofollow", so comment links pass no SEO value. There is no incentive to drop links here for ranking purposes. - More than two links sends the comment to moderation automatically, whatever the site's moderation policy. If your comment genuinely needs several sources, it will simply wait for the site owner's approval.
- Images, scripts, embeds, and styling beyond the table above are not supported in comments.
Etiquette written into the software
Connect asks for your name and, optionally, your email. The email is never displayed publicly; it exists only for reply notifications if you tick the box, and site owners see it in their moderation view. What the site stores about you and for how long is described in Privacy and data.