# Feedback on our interactive Markdown tutorial

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/feedback-on-our-interactive-markdown-tutorial/37290>\
**Category:** Site feedback\
**Created:** [2015 年 12 月 30 日午後 11:48 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feedback-on-our-interactive-markdown-tutorial/37290 "2015-12-30T23:48:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2015 年 12 月 31 日午前 4:27 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feedback-on-our-interactive-markdown-tutorial/37290/15 "2015-12-31T04:27:21Z")

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Your example is one I have never seen in the wild, ever. The whole point of asterisk emphasis is to turn what you typed above into italics. Whereas regular people do use asterisks for other regular people stuff and get in trouble doing so with markdown. Hence teaching escapes early.

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