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		pclark on Oct 25, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Startups Are Really Like off topic, but I'd really like to see block quotes in hacker news comments.

RiderOfGiraffes on Oct 25, 2009 | [–]

What do you mean by "block quotes"?

  You can already use "Code Mode"
  to quote exactly, get things in
  a different font, and formatted
  exactly as you wish.

It's a fixed width font, though.

adw on Oct 26, 2009 | | [–]

Presumably <blockquote>?

kf on Oct 26, 2009 | [–]

The pattern of block quotes tends to degrade comment quality

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