# Irony: This forum doesn't use standard markdown

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/irony-this-forum-doesnt-use-standard-markdown/168>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Created:** [September 4, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/irony-this-forum-doesnt-use-standard-markdown/168 "2014-09-04T00:14:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/sam/32/71_2.png) [@sam](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/irony-this-forum-doesnt-use-standard-markdown/168/5 "2014-10-17T01:10:06Z")

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The number 1 issue with using CommonMark here is lack Discourse specific extensions.

And the number 1 extension we need to even enable stmd.js as plugin would be some sort of support for quoting with meta data.

When I quote reply your post I get:

```nohighlight
[quote="eanderson, post:1, topic:168"]
Below, I will create a fence
[/quote]

```

If I just quoted the text in the standard way I would see:

```auto
> Below, I will create a fence

```

But this contains no metadata about which post I quoted and elminates a core feature of Discourse. Figuring out syntax and support for something like the above in CommonMark would pave the way for a move. Without it we are stuck.

cc @jgm @vitaly

(on top of that we have bbcode support syntax highlighting hinting and some other stuff, but none are as critical)

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