@RolandiXor actually all comments are still showing here.

@anonymous2 I think your edit is perfectly fine. Maybe also xymon-client could have been made xymon-client but italic text is still acceptable IMHO.

@Videonauth nice. :D This is the Chrome version and there is also a user-script available here.

Very good point. Unfortunately Markdown does not have a shortcut for this, so we need to rely on a probably not very famous HTML tag.

I agree with you. I don't think I said to avoid bolding in extremis, I think I sad to avoid overusing it. Your suggestion seems quite appropriate and it represents using bold text sparingly, so +1. However, multiple lines bold text is the worst thing. If you make so much text bold that you can read only that, it is probably too much.

@ParanoidPanda thanks for fixing my grammar! I'd like your opinion on the things you disagree with. :)

Ah right, I forgot I also sometimes find suggested edits polluted by overused HTML tags. :D The easiest way is actually using the {} toolbar button after selecting the code. :)

«Code blocks should only be used for stuff people might copy and paste somewhere, or to read shell output and errors» Yes, agreed, that's exactly what is written in my Q as well. «reject and edit is your friend» The point of the Q is that it would be much easier if suggested edits were formatted properly in the first place. One would hope that the majority of edits could be approved even without editing.

By the way, it would be nice and beneficial for all of us if the people who downvoted the question could also share their opinions on the topic. If we don't know why you disagree with formatting posts in a way accepted by consensus, how can we listen to your point of view?

I didn't found that link before, thank you for pointing that out. I will post it at the top of my Q.

By the way I totally forgot about the useless tags, especially version tags. Would you mind posting that as an answer?

«you will never get every one to agree on guidelines» You misunderstood the post. I am not forcing these specific suggestions as law. This Q has been opened to come up to guidelines together. «they are mostly your subjective opinion» Actually they are based on the semantics of different Markdown blocks (or HTML tags) and typographic conventions used in the western world as documented in many books about type and graphic design.

Menu entries are not code. Do you type File > Edit somewhere? Maybe the HUD... :D But seriously, those are things you click on. Italics are semantically made for emphasis. That's what they have been used for since people invented them here a few centuries ago. ;)