This is for future reference and for anyone else who is having problems with the WYSIWYG-style reply/post (It's totally not WYSIWYG

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I had so much trouble with the formatting in my FFXIV post that I was just about ready to throw it out the window, then I discovered this little gem:

Next time you're having problems with formatting, click that, and it'll take you to plain text view :) It's handy for quickly checking if you've bolded everything right, etc. But I like being able to see code tags so I'm going to be abusing that option quite a bit