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Indenting can help improve the layout of a discussion, making it much easier to read. You should always indent your reply one level deeper than the person you are replying to. The simplest way of indenting is to place a colon (:) at the beginning of a line. The more colons you use, the further indented the text will be:

An example of indented discussion.


This is aligned all the way to the left.
: This is indented slightly.
:: This is indented more.

(The colons will not show up on the page itself, just while editing.)

To create a list, use an asterisk (*) after the last colon (:) to create a bullet point for that line.

An example of a bullet list in a discussion.


:* First list item
:* Second list item
::* Sub-list item under second
:* Third list item