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Charles Miller defends Wiki style markup for wikis:

Sure, you end up with something that's significantly less powerful than HTML. This is a feature. A wiki page isn't a place for complicated markup, it's for writing stuff down. The more power you put in the markup language, the more people are going to be wanking around with the precise arrangement of angle-brackets that will make their paragraphs step from left-to-right in pixel-perfect harmony in lieu of saying something.

I support the same style of markup in the Comment poster in BottomFeeder, and in the client-side posting tool for this blog. I'm going to add it to the web comment form as well, for the reasons outlined by Charles. Most people - techies included - don't want to use html markup....