Tutorials: Comment Coding

 
I thought that there should be a thread to help out those who are having difficulty with the syntax for their posts.
 
Basically, a troubleshooting thread.  
Anyone who knows how to solve a problem is encouraged to help out any users requesting aid.

@Havoc  

 
The reason may be that you tried to embed an on-site image using the method meant for off-site links.  
!https://ponybooru.org/images/804407!  
External images: !http://some-image!
 
What you want is to use this.  
Images: >>1 — link to image, >>1t — embed image thumbnail (>>1p — large preview, >>1s — small thumbnail)
 
>>804407s This code, without the and gives you this:
 

Here’s something I discovered a little while ago…  
If you try to post multi-line code snippets, you’ll find that simply wrapping your code in ‘``@’ doesn’t work at all, resulting in something that looks like this:
 

 
Instead, you want to enclose your code in ‘@[=​=’ and ‘=​=]@’:
 

if (bar) {
console.log(‘baz’);
}
}`

 
The extra ‘[=​=’ syntax tells the parser to skip over formatting what’s inside it, as well as preserves the original spacing.