User reactions to WYSIWYM

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I am trying to decide between a WYSIWYG editor (e.g. TinyMCE, CKEditor) and a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editor (e.g. WMD) for my web application.

There is a thread on stackoverflow that compares the two approaches.

I would like to know how users, particularly computer novices, have reacted to WYSIWYM editors in deployed web applications. It could be that computer novices are confused by WYSIWYM editors, preferring the immediacy of WYSIWYG; but is that born out in real-world applications? It's not theory I'm asking about here, but empirical evidence of the acceptance or otherwise of WYSIWYM.

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As this is subjective (by definition!), I'd suggest editing your question and ticking the "community wiki" box. (Edit And that's no my close vote, so at least one other person thinks the same.) – T.J. Crowder
there is a good discussion here on User Experience over Stack Exchange – LoG

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Know your users. SO uses WYSIWYM for a reason, while gmail uses WYSIWYG for the same.