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## Here's a bug report. 

I've attempted to add the following comment:

    [**Please, don't use `mysql_*` functions in new code**](http://bit.ly/phpmsql). They are no longer maintained and the [deprecation process](http://j.mp/Rj2iVR) has begun on it. See the [**red box**](http://j.mp/Te9zIL)? Learn about [*prepared statements*](http://j.mp/T9hLWi) instead, and use [PDO](http://php.net/pdo) or [MySQLi](http://php.net/mysqli) - [this article](http://j.mp/QEx8IB) will help you decide which. If you choose PDO, [here is a good tutorial](http://j.mp/PoWehJ).

Which should render like so:

> [**Please, don't use `mysql_*` functions in new
> code**](http://bit.ly/phpmsql). They are no longer maintained and the
> [deprecation process](http://j.mp/Rj2iVR) has begun on it. See the
> [**red box**](http://j.mp/Te9zIL)? Learn about [*prepared
> statements*](http://j.mp/T9hLWi) instead, and use
> [PDO](http://php.net/pdo) or [MySQLi](http://php.net/mysqli) - [this
> article](http://j.mp/QEx8IB) will help you decide which. If you choose
> PDO, [here is a good tutorial](http://j.mp/PoWehJ).

Instead, right after saving, it renders to 

    [**Please, don't use `mysql_*` functions in new code***](http://bit.ly/phpmsql)*. They are no longer maintained and the [deprecation process](http://j.mp/Rj2iVR) has begun on it. See the [**red box**](http://j.mp/Te9zIL)? Learn about [</a>*<a href="http://j.mp/T9hLWi">prepared statements*](http://j.mp/T9hLWi) instead, and use [PDO](http://php.net/pdo) or [MySQLi](http://php.net/mysqli) - [this article](http://j.mp/QEx8IB) will help you decide which. If you choose PDO, [here is a good tutorial](http://j.mp/PoWehJ).

Which renders as

> [**Please, don't use `mysql_*` functions in new
> code***](http://bit.ly/phpmsql)*. They are no longer maintained and
> the [deprecation process](http://j.mp/Rj2iVR) has begun on it. See the
> [**red box**](http://j.mp/Te9zIL)? Learn about [</a>*<a
> href="http://j.mp/T9hLWi">prepared statements*](http://j.mp/T9hLWi)
> instead, and use [PDO](http://php.net/pdo) or
> [MySQLi](http://php.net/mysqli) - [this article](http://j.mp/QEx8IB)
> will help you decide which. If you choose PDO, [here is a good
> tutorial](http://j.mp/PoWehJ).

I suspect the asterisks are derailing it, but why should it care about it anyway? Does it attempt to also fix the comment before saving?


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## Edit

Seems like the Comment's markdown is parsed into HTML and then remapped to Markdown (why?!). Using's Chrome's console and editing the localStorage directly with

    <a href="http://bit.ly/phpmsql"><strong>Please, don't use <code>mysql_*</code> functions in new code</strong></a>. They are no longer maintained and the <a href="http://j.mp/Rj2iVR">deprecation process</a> has begun on it. See the <a href="http://j.mp/Te9zIL"><strong>red box</strong></a>? Learn about <a href="http://j.mp/T9hLWi"><em>prepared statements</em></a> instead, and use <a href="http://php.net/pdo">PDO</a> or <a href="http://php.net/mysqli">MySQLi</a> - <a href="http://j.mp/QEx8IB">this article</a> will help you decide which. If you choose PDO, <a href="http://j.mp/PoWehJ">here is a good tutorial</a>.

Appears to fix the problem.