You can also surround the text block in asterisks to put it in italics:

> Two years later, the artist Takeshi Murata created “Monster Movie,” which blended footage from a 1981 B-movie and a heavy soundtrack and which is now in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian as perhaps the most influential piece in the datamosh canon.

Until HN adds first-class support for blockquotes, there is no "right way to do it".

In a thread about glitches, you're seriously asking people to respect formatting so that it feels less glitchy?

I use ">" because most people on HN can read raw markdown. Other people use HN code-blocks because they more closely resemble the indentation that ">" produces in markdown. I can't fathom why one method would be vastly preferred over another, or why it needs to be policed like this.

It can be fixed in CSS. Add scrollbars to <pre> on small viewports, or have it wrap on small viewports.

Opera Mini could do magic with forcing text to wrap on small displays, why are mobile browsers shit today? If you don't want this to be usable on an actual computer, why not make HN an app and be done with it? Comments could become even shorter and more inane than they generally are already.