Off-topic, but I wish Markdown had a proper "multi line" block quote syntax like this. The current standard of ">" is open to too much interpretation around paragraph breaks. Similar to how fenced code blocks with ``` are a major improvement over prefixing the line with 4 spaces.
> because if you have multiple lines not separated by an empty line,
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> even with a "quoted" extra line, it's not formatted on hn as such, and everything collapses into a single line.
The difference between code blocks and block quotes is that you can nest the latter. On the one hand that makes multi-line syntax even more useful. On the other it would make reading block quotes hard to follow when reading MD in plain text (then again, who still does that these days?)
