I'm a bit of an idiot. The FN devs don't control how the layout and submissions work on this, UserEcho does. Disregard the line about the HTML editor, I suck cocks.

Given all the features and widgets FN gives you over competing sites such as Weazyl and FA I'm surprised they never implemented a text editor like what SF has. In fact, it's a bit mind boggling why the site devs would use a simple HTML based text editor for these comment sections, but force the use of markdown for the writing submission. It's backwards really.

For this reason and greater support to community writers I'm giving this feature request and upvote.