Look at this screenshot.
You can see where I put the asterisks (*) on the middle two lines. They way I typed it should have made it so that I had both the asterisks and italicized text.
The answer preview says that I did it correctly.
It shows that I keep both my asterisks and italicized font, like I thought I would.
However, what actually appears as my answer is quite different.
I keep only two asterisks, one of them in a place that should not be visible, and none of the italics. This is frustrating and confusing, as the answer preview is supposed to reflect what the actual answer is like. Now, a while back there was an update made to the DB that changed a little bit of the coding, what I think may be the problem is that the preview is still considering old coding to be correct. For example, if you want
you text to be in quotes
You can no longer type:
And when I meet him I will say to him:
>Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Because that shows up in the final question/answer as this:
And when I meet him I will say to him:
>Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
(this, by the way, appears as the quoted text in the question preview)
Instead, you now have to have one empty line between the un-quoted text, and the quoted text, as well as a space after the ">", like so:
And when I meet him I will say to him:
> Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
And it will show up correctly:
And when I meet him I will say to him:
Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
TL;DR the question/answer preview does not accurately reflect the final outcome.