You got me. Overall, I preffer to judge posts by their content, so I'm glad to learn of your trick.

For the record, even I expected to stop at the Daring Fireball link. I also wrote a bunch of examples, but only then noticed/remembered the "Show help" button. I also erased a sentence about how to show markdown code in markdown (it's rarely useful here, there was the Daring Fireball link, and my real reason for writing it was to show off).

I tend to heavily edit my writings. My most useful heuristic so far is "shorter is better". This very comment benefited from it (let's stop the recursion right there).