What's up with the paragraph symbols?

<p> YMMV.</p>

<p>I remain committed to donating $$ to a true freelance programmer to bash out a perfect board forum for us.  </p>
<p>I see the censors are hard at work. I vote that we go back to JPR 2.0 or dump the WordPress software.</p>

His post did not contain the extra symbols.

If you want to get their attention do this:  @sffh   @deadpool

and say something in the posting editor has gone wrong, it is not me

On Edit:  Does anybody see the extra symbols in my posting?

what everyone keeps calling censorship but it isn’t. It gets called upon submission and I was testing possible editor contributions. Sorry about that. Filter is back on.

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