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Why forum have this option like bold color and so on? Because it's for use where you need.

Quote from: Jet Cash on October 02, 2019, 01:38:22 PM

I skip over such posts, and very rarely do I read the content. Am I alone in this?

Most likely you only, because I do not skip if bold is on appropriate places. If someone bold total topic or user color then its matter of skip. Sometimes its bit important to use bold or color on the post in order to highlight or make point. So I wouldn't if there is mind such as post.

Nevermind if you like to skip, OP only lose a single reader, nothing else.

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Bold words in a sentence quite helpful if the post is too long to read but if people are doing it such nonsense way then better ignore that comment/thread.

For me increasing the font size quite annoying over bold text.

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In my opinion, there is nothing wrong in highlighting the text which are important. Bold texts are usually used to highlight the important texts in a paragraph. If the paragraph is lengthy, then highlighting the important points will be good and easy to read. If the texts are lengthy and plain, it will make the users boring to read. Also, I agree that using the Bold characters very often in a paragraph will not be good. It should be used where it is relevant.

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Naturally, there are side effects if we abuse or overuse something, bold, glow, italicization, capitalization, colors, emoticons, quotes. Each effects/ features have their specific use-cases, and if we use them relevantly in context, they will do show their best effects. If we use them irrelevantly, they will do show side-effects.

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I don't see a problem in using bold text for single words or parts of a sentence to put more emphasize on it. What I don't like to see is an entire paragraph in bold and even less a completely capitalized post. I have no problems with different colors either especially red which can be used as a warning.

I use bold to emphasize a point or italicized text with quotes when copying or answering to a specific part in a post.

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@theymos, also doing what you don't like, bold, color, and images.

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I myself often use uppercase letters, images and colors.

However, if it is used in a particular area of each post, I think it does not matter, to make it easier to read each purpose of a particular topic.
In my opinion, if it's not excessive.

Excluded, color blind people.

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The poster is presenting you with the opportunity of reading their output. If they feel part of it worthy of bold then they will use it.

Of course ALL BOLD is going to make it harder to read, but selectively using bold for what they consider important is actually very useful and can SAVE YOU TIME.

Anyway what's the hurry for someone retired who hangs out in mc donalds all day?

We hardly bold anything, It is far quicker to slap caps lock down and off.

People tell us all the time " we never read your long winded junk" then somehow they know every detail we have posted lol.

If it is interesting to them, people read it bold or no bold.

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There's a purpose all the simplest feature that help communication become effective are present on the message box. If there wasn't a need for them then the forum won't have had those features on the message box. You aren't here to please anyone with your style of writing although don't abuse or over use them. Make use of those features (e.g bold, emojis, color or glows etc), when the need arises.

Sometimes I just want to get the point a post is trying to pass across without having to read through the whole reply or by just skimming the post. Having users highlight important point either through bolding or glows, make it a little easier for the main message to be spotted and intend information get passed across.

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I don't mind people using bold words to emphasize certain things, as long as it's not overused.

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Quote from: Jet Cash on October 02, 2019, 01:38:22 PM

I skip over such posts, and very rarely do I read the content. Am I alone in this?

Can you give some contexts for this? What kind of post? I believe it is not about "bold" in general.

People are treating this in a broad sense, and they post this and that. Kind of turn into a thread about 'what is bold and what's useful for.'

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Quote from: dkbit98 on October 02, 2019, 03:47:20 PM

Bold should be used for titles or when you want to draw attention to one specific word.
Maybe someone was angry when creating large bold text

I don't think this topic will have any effect on reducing this

I was amused as properly used Bold type is a good tool for posting.

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Quote from: Jet Cash on October 02, 2019, 01:38:22 PM

I find it slows down my reading quite considerably. Presumably you want people to read your post - well bold and coloured text is non-standard, and it slows down reading for those of us who are busy, and have other interests. If you want your message to get maximum exposure, then please treat the forum as a collection of message boards, and not as a place to practice design exercises.

I skip over such posts, and very rarely do I read the content. Am I alone in this?

I respect your opinion as I do most opinions but I find bold to be a very useful tool when used correctly. On a bullet point list it's nice to use bold on the subject of each bullet point. Headers obviously are great for bold. Colored letters are pretty freaking annoying when used incorrectly, though. Red letters are pretty standard. They have always signified warning and I appreciate them. Although I agree bold should not be overused, I don't see how it can possibly slow down your reading. Especially, if the font size is the same. Bold doesn't make the words any longer.... Everyone has their quirks, though.

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Not only bold, but also font, colors, capitalization, glow, etc.
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Quote from: tranthidung on September 15, 2019, 05:54:46 AM

Don't over bold, highlight, paint, glow
Over using those effects is likely distracting readers' attention on those effects rather than what writers want to discuss.

Don't over capitalize characters
Only use capitalization for the first charater, that will keep your title looks more friendly, and readers will be able to fastly skim your title with more time to think of your main ideas.

Quote from: theymos on August 24, 2012, 03:31:55 AM

Use normal capitalization, not "newspaper capitalization". "Thread title style guide" instead of "Thread Title Style Guide". Capitalize the first letter of the title unless it a trademark like "eMachines".

Don't over-modify font
The fact is mobile platforms display default font, and over-modification on fonts might makes your text unfriendly. I also believe that most of users prefer default font.
San-Serif or Serif when modifying Font Face for your posts/ threads

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Bold text can be useful from time to time, for example when it's necessary to highlight certain keywords in quotes of another users, in order to focus a reader's attention on them immediately.

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I don't really have much problems with posts that contains bolded text. The one I really frown at is using all caps to make replies. Immediately skip such post. For bolded text (s), If it's used appropriately, I'm good with that. I'm only against it when it gets abused in a bit to grab immediate attention of readers. For instance, Bolding all the text in a post reply. Completely unnecessary.

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Quote from: AB de Royse777 on October 02, 2019, 01:50:40 PM

Quote from: Jet Cash on October 02, 2019, 01:38:22 PM

I skip over such posts, and very rarely do I read the content. Am I alone in this?

You are not alone in this.

I do the same. Too much bold and large font most of the time lose the interest to read a post.

Also I skip to much emoji and GIF when they post it. The images takes time to load and sometimes when there are a lot of image then it's irritating to wait for all of them to load before reading.

Same feels when theres images being attached and it does take up some load times and when the images are way too big, scrolling down to the bottom is my worst enemy.

For Bold text, I don't have much problem but for CAPSLOCK ones does really irritate me even the sentence you do read up doesn't show up some anger. Grin

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Bold should be used for titles or when you want to draw attention to one specific word.
Maybe someone was angry when creating large bold text

I don't think this topic will have any effect on reducing this

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Quote from: Jet Cash on October 02, 2019, 01:38:22 PM

I find it slows down my reading quite considerably. Presumably you want people to read your post - well bold and coloured text is non-standard, and it slows down reading for those of us who are busy, and have other interests.

But isn't that the point of bolding a message? You are just simply highlighting and putting an emphasize on the part of what you are trying to say. If a user is using it sparingly on each of his/her post I don't think it would bother anyone even if you are busy on what you are doing and after all what are you even busy for in the first place if you are just here in the forum reading posts of other members? For users just bolding some parts of their text and not most of their post I personally appreciate on what they are doing as they are highlighting the key words/sentences in their post which makes me comprehend what they are trying to say.

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Writing a whole text or post in capital letters is really funny and wrong, it's just like writing an essay, composition or a letter all in capital letters, it'll make it difficult to read and laughable to some extent.
There are things that need to be capitalized, such as the first word in a sentence, the first word after a full stop and also to draw a readers attention to a particular word or sentence, when the correct rules that apply to capitalizatiom is used, then it makes sense.

When a whole text is in upper case letters, it can send a message that the OP doesn't really know what he or she is saying and is not really sure about their ideas.

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