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Formatting and syntax are relevant to what a post means, and they can clarify or obscure meaning, but they do not determine meaning. … This cannot be--or at least is not--encompassed by any existing formatting guidelines. So your own judgments--from reason, intuition, or a combination of the two--are of great importance. …

You had to do this to make the list formatting work... but I would consider that blank line, rather than the list formatting itself, to have been the more important improvement in this case. … The current formatting is not actually a rollback. …

Instead of searching for posts with HTML code formatting just so you can make them use the (usually) nicer Markdown style, I recommend that you instead search for posts with HTML code formatting as a … Embedded Formatting: Inline Code Spans An inline code span can exist within formatted text, but what if one wants to apply formatting to just some text within it? …

Since there is less of a "one right way" for formatting than for something like spelling or punctuation, formatting that is readable and consistent should usually be kept. … A good general rule is that only text that is codelike in some significant way or which requires code formatting to be efficiently readable should have code formatting. …

We don't need to enforce a style policy about exactly how people should use bold and italics. It is okay for different posts to use different styles. There is no one proper way, nor probably even just …

Editing is justified to remove code formatting from text that is not code-like in any way. However, there is some reasonable disagreement about what is code-like. … When something is clearly code-like (like commands for entry in a terminal), editing is justified to add code formatting. …

Probably no special formatting is necessary. Otherwise, you should simply linkify their name to their profile. Beyond the URL, no special formatting is required. (For example, nutty about natty.) …