Allow Markdown in site-based comments

[batrachian]

Title:
Allow Markdown in site-based comments

Area:
Comments

Summary:
Expand markdown support to cover all areas of user input - comments currently may only use markdown if they are posted by email.

Description:
Markdown is a cool thing! We can use it (or not) in entries, and post-by-email comments are always using it, but there's no way to use Markdown in comments made directly on the site. This is a thing that we ought to be able to do.

Poll #16839 Allow Markdown in site-based comments

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 47

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Should be implemented as-is.
24 (51.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
9 (19.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (2.1%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (27.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[larissa]

I would prefer if it was just an option to toggle somewhere than having to call it out every time you want to use it; that would get very tedious very quickly. No idea if that's feasible, but I would personally use Markdown everywhere across the site if I could and would soon get very tired of having to write "!markdown" in front of every single comment! I can kind of understand why that's the case for entries, but in comments? Not so much.