User blog:Lither/Nowiki and ()

I'm making a blog post because I feel that the message I keep giving people isn't enough. I'm seeing people constantly tell people to use ((TEMPLATE)), and replace the with {}. This works, but in my eyes it's like trying to chop a tree down with a sledgehammer - it's possible, but there are more efficient ways that beat around the bush a lot less.

Nowiki. What is that, you ask?

Well, glad to notice you've been paying attention to all the times I've told you to use it.

It works like this: it prevents the code you have typed in from working.

Just to show you:.

With nowiki:

Now, to type it out you simply do this:

The closing tags are important: you only want that section to be affected. This allows you to easily type out codes in a way people can easily read them.