# Strikeout threw out? Strikethrough strikes out, throughout?

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/strikeout-threw-out-strikethrough-strikes-out-throughout/820>\
**Category:** Extensions\
**Created:** [October 17, 2014, 8:39pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/strikeout-threw-out-strikethrough-strikes-out-throughout/820 "2014-10-17T20:39:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/codinghorror/32/2_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/strikeout-threw-out-strikethrough-strikes-out-throughout/820/25 "2014-10-25T18:34:44Z")

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Tone down the rhetoric please; see [http://talk.commonmark.org/faq](http://talk.commonmark.org/faq)

The initial goal of CommonMark is to stabilize the existing Markdown spec, not adding everyone’s pet extensions.

Over time, once the much more important work of stabilizing the spec and having a great set of tests for the spec is complete, we will look at extensions and additions. But that is not the priority over the next immediate 6 months.

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