The indented text (with all the >s) that is pre-entered into the Message box is just a quoted reply that you can erase (Control-A Delete or Apple-A Delete) or use to illustrate your post.

It's just like replying to an email and inject text between thoughts and paragraphs.

It's a pretty nice feature, but if enough people don't like it or are confused by it I can deactivate it.

I'm not yet comfortable allowing HTML in posts. I have some concerns I'll be looking into over the near term.

V