Many of the sections on the site allow you to add a little bit of spice to the text you're entering, so it's not quite as boring. We use a format based on BBCode, but with a few extra tweaks that are more similar to MediaWiki markup.

Type...	To get...
[b]This is bold[/b]	This is bold
[i]This is italics[/i]	This is italics
[u]This is underlining[/u]	This is underlining
[?]This is a spoiler[/?] or [spoiler]This is a spoiler[/spoiler]	This is a spoiler
[s]This is struck out[/s]	[s]This is struck out[/s]
[box]This is in a box[/box]	This is in a box
[[Thet]]	Thet
[#1|Front Page]	Front Page
[http://google.com/|Google]	Google
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[h1]heading[/h1]	heading
[h2]heading[/h2]	heading
[h3]heading[/h3]	heading
[h4]heading[/h4]	heading
[h5]heading[/h5]	heading
* list item	list item
[table][tr][th]header[th]header 2[tr][td]body[td]body2[/table]	header header 2 body body2
[quote]long block quote[/quote]	long block quote
[caption]caption[/caption]	caption