<b>just checking to see if you're retarded.</b>
just trying to make links rather than copy paste. no bueno.
...then bold and italics show up OK. I realize there are other tags you might want to use, but it's a decent work around for the time being.
Below the box where you type in your text, it says "Allowed HTML tags:" and <b> and <i> are not listed. I think you just have to use the buttons provided. The source code uses the <strong> (bold) and <em> (italics) tags, but they don't work if you just type them out. Weird.