frostman's Journal: i wish the journals allowed more HTML

i think it would be cool if /. allowed a greater range of HTML tags in the journals.

not allow *anything* mind you, not embedded movies and such, but more formatting options.

so you could do things like <span style="...">, or so you could put in ASCII art without the /. "code" filter screwing it up.

of course it would be good to have a user setting like "allow rich formatting in journals."

but i often find myself checking out the /. journal of someone who's made an interesting (or funny) post, and when i find cool stuff there i wonder how much cooler it might be if they had a chance at making it look good.

anybody agree?