Micro.blog escape character?

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Micro.blog adds markdown links to @ names on my blog even when I do not want them. I get that this can be practical, but it has even occurred with such names inside <a> tags, which really should not happen. Example of what turned up in my post, even though I did not post it this way:

<a href="http://markstoneman.zirk.us">[@markstoneman.zirk.us](http://markstoneman.zirk.us)</a>

I posted with HTML, and micro.blog added markdown links inside this HTML.

My question: Is there an escape character that we can use to get Micro.blog to NOT react this way? It would be handy for describing a changed username as well. I don’t want to annoy people with the empty markdown link Micro.blog generates.

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Yeah, this bites me too sometimes. Maybe something @manton wants to fix?

My workaround is to escape the at sign like this:

 <a href="http://markstoneman.zirk.us">&commat;markstoneman.zirk.us</a>
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I’ll fix that. Micro.blog should be smarter about not trying to auto-link usernames when they’re inside a link already.

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This is also happening if I link a complete URL when said URL is wrapped in HTML. I see I got around this in an earlier post by reproducing the link without the https:// prefix, so that’s what I’ve done to fix it.

The affected post I just did was driving me crazy because I knew I had only used HTML, not added markdown. I always thought that a markdown renderer would render HTML as is, not throw new markdown into the mix. @manton @help

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Now I linked a social account username in a link to a specific post of theirs, and Micro.blog stripped out the reference to the specific post. @manton @help This and the behavior I described three days ago is rather heavy handed, I think.

Sven’s workaround helped, though. I used &#64; instead of @ the second time round. @sod