I wonder whether it could be possible to disable character changes that the forum software automatically enforces when formatting posts.
What I mean is automatic formatting like changing -- to – when typing two -, and also changing "" to “”. This happens a lot unless you use code formatting, which most users do not (and they usually don’t even know that there is such a thing).
The reason is that these formatting changes in many cases lead to butchered commands (I’ve seen a lot of those on the forum, especially with "" changed into “”, which for this reason won’t work when copied and pasted into the command line), or they simply make things unclear (e.g. see https://forum.syncthing.net/t/towards-syncthing-2-0/24072/50 for the most recent example with – instead of --).
I understand that for stylistic reasons these kind of formatting changes may be useful in some cases, but our forum is more on the programming side, so I don’t think this automatic formatting really brings any particular value, and it definitely can mess commands or code in general up very easily.