Hi this is a quick and dirty on how to use Steam's formatting system, which, quite frankly, could use a little love

It makes things look nice, like look at the header I made right there, it can be used to organize thoughts and to make things look less like walls of text. To do this, type [h1] followed by [/h1], and you will have a cool looking header! To get this to work, just remove the commas, as that is the only thing that is letting you read that as plain text, without the commas it would look like this:

But what if I need to make a statement that people take seriously?

Then bold it, it is really similar to making a header, you start with square brackets, then use the bold ("b") and close with square brackets. Put you text in the middle and close it with the same square brackets, but put a / before the b. Finish with your square brackets. This is what it should look like [b] this[/b]:

this

What if something is so important it needs something to stand on?

Underline it dammit!! It is the same as bolding, just replace the "b" with a "u" and u are good to go!! (Yes you can hit me for that one)

What if I'm feeling fancy?

Use your italics, it is the same as bolding, but you use an "i" instead of a "b", honestly i couldn't make this any easier.

And if I'm sarcastic? Or I'm wrong and for some reason want to strike it out instead of editing?

Just cross it out! Admittedly this is where things get a little tricky, as instead of using a letter, we get to start using words! Look at that, your first words, how cute!! It is the same formatting as before, with the [] and the /, but you will use "strike" instead of "b". It looks like this [strike] and you are now instantly pardonned for all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you have ever done[/strike]:

and you are now instantly pardonned for all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you have ever done

I just saw Star Wars and HAVE to talk about it!!

Call spoilers, jeez, how rude could you be, spoiling the ending for someone. It works just like strike, but you replace "strike" with "spoiler". It would look like [spoiler]this[/spoiler] . And this is the end result.

And I do that by using "noparse" it functions exactly like everything previous, but "noparse" is used instead of whatever you where using prior.[noparse][b]This is how you show someone how to bold something[/b][/noparse]. And yes, it did take me a while to make sure I had the formatting right on that last string.

This is where things get exciting[i.imgur.com]

Thats right ladies and gents, we have the technology, we are linking the internet!!! Things get hard here though. You start with your traditional [], and inbetween your first [] you put "url=" now after that you need a link, so we will choose this one for our example: http://i.imgur.com/hGvrbzd.webm . You put that after your "=" but before "]". Then you type your text and close it with your square brackets, and /url. This is what it is typed as: [url=http://i.imgur.com/hGvrbzd.webm] And this is what it will look like[/url]: Magic right?[i.imgur.com]

Here is a look at my life:

• Sleep
  
• Play games
  
• Grease the pipe
  
• More games
  
• Eat
  
• Repeat

Now if you wanted to make a fancy list like this, you start with your brackets and list, followed by some wierd stuff that I'll show below:

[list]
[*] This
[*] Is
[*] How
[*] You
[*] Make
[*] A
[*] List[/list]

Then order your list, this can be done by putting an "o" infront of "list" as you can see here:

[olist]
[*] Happy
[*] Now
[*]?[/olist]

It ends up looking like this:

1. Such
   
2. Cool
   
3. Much
   
4. Formatting

Believe it or not, we can quote things! This is similar to linking things, but you replace "url" with "quote", and after the "=" you put the name of the person you are quoting. [quote=latchet5] Believe it or not, we can quote things! This is similar to linking things, but you replace "url" with "quote", and after the "=" you put the name of the person you are quoting.[/quote].

Originally posted by latchet5:

Don't steal that, its mine!

It changes the font, and keeps all of the spaces that you put between the brackets. Just use "code" instead of whatever you where using before. It looks like [code]this when you type it[/code], and when used it looks like this:

Thats all folks, I hope you enjoyed todays Steam adventure, tomorrow, we are going to find Gabe Newell's house through the magic of Steam support, that should take us 6-12 weeks, right? /s