Blockquote is simply a way of ‘quoting’ something [apparently anything!] without the need to reference the source.

It is clearly more convenient than, for example, properly quoting a long post and then editing-out most of the content.

MichaelG.

… and here, I am not:

Title says it all really.

In case you have not tried it, This is Blockquote
‘Why’ also applies to the other text formatting facilities

Ian
If you don’t like the way the block quote tag displays simply code your own browser and you can display it how you like.
Keith

The ability to be able to use the following in the editor would be like Christmas coming early for me,
here)

You have a long wait until xmas comes round again but never to late to start wishing

Choose fonts (even a limited range)

Probably not something that would get used much

Change font size

Again may only get used a small amount

Change font colour

Ditto

Underline would be better than strikethrough (but neither are that useful)

Underline is useful if no other highlight is available. Superscript for things like area and volume so the ² & ³ are raised would be good

Oh and looks like I have found a use for block quote too.

As the editing options only take up half the editor on a PC screen then there is room to add some more, probably better to have less on the phone option as to put them all there would take up 2 or 3 lines.

A bit more contrast to the quote background colour would not go amiss either

Lastly I would not say the cookie and login changes were minor issues, look and user friendlyness are low down the list.

Edited to show off Moderators Perks

Just testing

This is underlined

This is bold

This is italics

Edit – ah, didn’t fully work as expected

It is interesting to see what is happening behind the scenes if you use your browser or an editor to look at the source code behind the pages.
If you don’t like the way pages are displayed you can also use the setting in your browser to change how pages display. If you compare different browsers there are subtle differences in the way pages are displayed.

Test

<style>
sup {
vertical-align: super;
font-size: smaller;
}
</style>
<p>Normal ^super</p>
<p>5³= 125.</p>

End of test