okay, first, you can't use html in an hn post for formatting. you should go back and add two-return-key paragraph breaks, so your post will be readable.
I had the exact same thing happen to me the other day when trying to submit a poll, it popped up <p> tags all over the place, so I'm sure it's not the guys fault.
I had to go back and edit the thread to make it readable after someone pointed it out to me.
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I had to go back and edit the thread to make it readable after someone pointed it out to me.
oh. huh, didn't know that.
by the way, by putting a couple of blank spaces at the beginning of the quote, your comment is causing the page width to get stretched out.
froo may be using a browser where that isn't evident.
Until PG fixes, you can fix this yourself client-side with a bookmarklet or a greasemonkey script. See ...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=437002
It's customary to quote text using italics (that's * around text). Four spaces are for code.