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Totally agree here as well. We've been building social network sites with Drupal, and were really excited about the possibilities of Ning. This issue is going to be a major problem, though.

Expecting content authors to know enough HTML for basic formatting is just silly. I wish that was possible, because I really do hate what rich text editors do to markup. In practice, though, requiring HTML knowledge for any kind of formatting is a pretty significant barrier for content authors, and you can lock down text editors enough to prevent most markup disasters.

Please fix this! There's so many open-source editors out there it seems like it should be a pretty small task to plug one in!