Ha ha, I can't help but feel like my suggestion prompted the use of "football" as a sample tag. :p

Nonetheless, I love this idea, and will give you a thumbs up. The search system on this site is something that needs a bit of improvement.

Yes. Yes, yes, yes please. Markdown is absolutely terrible for trying to submit a story, especially when the formatting isn't retained from its original source. It's far too unintuitive to use.