Georgia Straight uses Drupal - poorly

I have a guilty pleasure - I read the Georgia Straight's "Confessions".

I've often puzzled over how the confessors refuse to use paragraph breaks.

Finally, I posted to a particularly lengthy (longer than one screen) paragraph confession:

tl;dr
Mar 8, 2014 at 4:13 am
I'm very curious if the Georgia Straight is eating carriage returns / line feeds or if confessors tend to never ever use them?

Anyone know - it's frankly kind of annoying, and I suspect it's the GS's fault.

Which currently sits at +1 -7 = -6 in the thumbs rating.

Someone confirmed my suspicions:

Tl;dr - I think you are right because GS took out my paragraph breaks on a previous post. I find it annoying as well!

To which Martin Dunphey (staff member) replied:

Martin Dunphy
Mar 8, 2014 at 2:07 pm
Re: Cookie and tl;dr:

The Straight doesn't touch paragraph breaks.

Sounds like a technical glitch on your end.

No, Martin, sorry but it's you, not me:

Hi Martin,

I see para breaks in your post, so my end is working just fine.

Another poster above has confirmed that the GS eats consecutive "enter" key presses (para breaks) in Confessions (not comments).

TL;DR version: it's you, not me.

Your Drupal installation has an unfortunate choice of Text Format on the Confessions input text area that is different than is on the *comments*.

Among the choices are Filtered HTML and Plain Text. Set to Plain Text to honour paragraphs; HTML reduces consecutive white space to a single one.

Thanks!

Let's see if the issue finally gets corrected.