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How To Enhance Your Comments

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• <b>this makes things bold</b>
• <i>this puts things in italics</i>
• <blockquote>this will box off quoted material</blockquote>
• <a href=”http://www.dummyurl.com” target=”new”>this is how you link to other comments as well as to other things around the web</a>
• To obtain the URL of the comment you want to link to, 1) right-click the date stamp of the comment in question, 2) select “Copy link location,” 3) paste the link between the quotes in the above code.

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