I saw that some people use the ">" for writing in stackexchange. For example, a post will appear as follows:
I love math.
When should I use ">" for writing? Can someone help me?
Thanks.
I saw that some people use the ">" for writing in stackexchange. For example, a post will appear as follows:
I love math.
When should I use ">" for writing? Can someone help me?
Thanks.
If you look in markdown editing help, you will see that it is called blockquote. The name suggests that it is used for quotations.
But I quite often use it also if I want to visually distinguish some part of the post.
I hope I do not violate some kind of SE network conventions in that way. (I do not know about any "SE network style guide" about using markdown elements. I suspect that more experienced users would have told me about it, if my use of blockquotes were incorrect.)
I have searched meta.SO a little, but I found only one question where something similar is discussed: Option to highlight the gist of the question.