diff --git a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
index 01be567d5..40dd92b62 100644
--- a/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/application_helper.rb
@@ -22,46 +22,20 @@ module ApplicationHelper
   end
 
   def markdown(text)
+    # See https://github.com/vmg/redcarpet for options
     render_options = {
-      # will remove from the output HTML tags inputted by user
       filter_html:     false,
-      # will insert <br /> tags in paragraphs where are newlines
-      # (ignored by default)
       hard_wrap:       true,
-      # hash for extra link options, for example 'nofollow'
       link_attributes: { }
-      # more
-      # will remove <img> tags from output
-      # no_images: true
-      # will remove <a> tags from output
-      # no_links: true
-      # will remove <style> tags from output
-      # no_styles: true
-      # generate links for only safe protocols
-      # safe_links_only: true
-      # and more ... (prettify, with_toc_data, xhtml)
     }
     renderer = Redcarpet::Render::HTML.new(render_options)
-
     extensions = {
-      #will parse links without need of enclosing them
       autolink:           true,
-      # blocks delimited with 3 ` or ~ will be considered as code block.
-      # No need to indent.  You can provide language name too.
-      # ```ruby
-      # block of code
-      # ```
       fenced_code_blocks: true,
-      # will ignore standard require for empty lines surrounding HTML blocks
       lax_spacing:        true,
-      # will not generate emphasis inside of words, for example no_emph_no
       no_intra_emphasis:  true,
-      # will parse strikethrough from ~~, for example: ~~bad~~
       strikethrough:      true,
-      # will parse superscript after ^, you can wrap superscript in ()
       superscript:        true
-      # will require a space after # in defining headers
-      # space_after_headers: true
     }
     Redcarpet::Markdown.new(renderer, extensions).render(text).html_safe
   end