Thread:SW8573/@comment-4674838-20120912221907/@comment-4674838-20120913164914

Unfortunately, that's not possible. At the top of the comments, Wikia uses a element -- that's where expiryMessage gets placed. Textareas don't support wikitext or html, anything you put inside of them will be rendered as raw text.

This might seem silly because you would say "but we can edit with rich text! why isn't rich text available?" -- but the expiryMessage has to be placed on the page before the editor can load. If the editor were to load, yes, I might be able to find a way to get rich text in there ... but then commenting wouldn't be locked if the editor had loaded, which would make the script pointless :P