As the title says I'm just testing out formatting stuff, particularly if escape characters work, hopefully it's the same across forums and comments.

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Dang it doesn't

[quote ]xyz says:
fdsf
fasdf
fsad
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Suppose that's satisfactory

[bold]test[/bold]

hmmm how to do bold? I know I've seen it before.

test
[i]test[/]

okay that's it it's [b ]message[/b ] think italicizing works too [i ]message[/i ] message