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[phoenix]

If you quote someone and type a response, the original position of the cursor, above the quote, leads to bold print. I looked at this and it makes sense to differentiate the quote from the response and I think the graphics designer for this type of board designed it to do that. No other reason occurs to me other than to make it easy to view the posts as separate, quote and response. I have heard from 2 admins and 1 poster now complaining about my use of bold, but I believe I am using the boldthe way the board was designed.

Anybody that doesn't like the bold in my posts please don't read them. Frankly I like to see the bold used when somebody replies to a quote. I note Aike uses the bold also. It makes it very easy and quick for me to read the new post.

Sometimes after a few responses and even after lengthy single response and quote, it is difficult to pick out the latest response.

If I was typing along here I might bold something for emphasis, or CAPITALIZE IT ALSO FOR EMPHASIS, THOUGH I HAVE USED ITALICS TOO, AND UNDERLINED SOMETHING RARELY IF EVER.

Frankly I like the clarity of bold when somebody responds to a quote and would appreciate more of you using what was designed into the board.

[phoenix]

SEE??? Quote, respond and it comes up bold!:P

Or you can do it the hard way and reposition the cursor to a position that you like and not use any bold.

phoenix wrote:
If you quote someone and type a response, the original position of the cursor, above the quote, leads to bold print. I looked at this and it makes sense to differentiate the quote from the response and I think the graphics designer for this type of board designed it to do that. No other reason occurs to me other than to make it easy to view the posts as separate, quote and response. I have heard from 2 admins and 1 poster now complaining about my use of bold, but I believe I am using the boldthe way the board was designed.

Anybody that doesn't like the bold in my posts please don't read them. Frankly I like to see the bold used when somebody replies to a quote. I note Aike uses the bold also. It makes it very easy and quick for me to read the new post.

Sometimes after a few responses and even after lengthy single response and quote, it is difficult to pick out the latest response.

If I was typing along here I might bold something for emphasis, or CAPITALIZE IT ALSO FOR EMPHASIS, THOUGH I HAVE USED ITALICS TOO, AND UNDERLINED SOMETHING RARELY IF EVER.

Frankly I like the clarity of bold when somebody responds to a quote and would appreciate more of you using what was designed into the board.

Like way down here, no bold.

[Will Lavender]

What's strange is that when I use the computers at Indiana University Southeast, via Mozilla, I have to type above quotes. If I don't want to post in bold, then I have to unclick bold before I type a word.

If I use Internet Explorer at IUS, I am able to type below the quote without bold.

If I type at home, however, also using Mozilla, then I can type below the quote.

I believe it has to do with certain versions of Mozilla, though I'm not sure.

I think bold is tough on the eyes. But that's just me.

FWIW, I have the habit of typing all caps for EMPHASIS, but I have seen other posters doing that on other boards and it's sort of creepy. From here on, I'm going to underline my emphasis words.

[CatFanInTheBathtub]

I do like the bold, but isn't the natural place for a response afterthe original post ? Can't theyprogram it init so that any response is always in bold regardless of location?

phoenix wrote:
SEE??? Quote, respond and it comes up bold!:P

Or you can do it the hard way and reposition the cursor to a position that you like and not use any bold.

phoenix wrote:
If you quote someone and type a response, the original position of the cursor, above the quote, leads to bold print. I looked at this and it makes sense to differentiate the quote from the response and I think the graphics designer for this type of board designed it to do that. No other reason occurs to me other than to make it easy to view the posts as separate, quote and response. I have heard from 2 admins and 1 poster now complaining about my use of bold, but I believe I am using the boldthe way the board was designed.

Anybody that doesn't like the bold in my posts please don't read them. Frankly I like to see the bold used when somebody replies to a quote. I note Aike uses the bold also. It makes it very easy and quick for me to read the new post.

Sometimes after a few responses and even after lengthy single response and quote, it is difficult to pick out the latest response.

If I was typing along here I might bold something for emphasis, or CAPITALIZE IT ALSO FOR EMPHASIS, THOUGH I HAVE USED ITALICS TOO, AND UNDERLINED SOMETHING RARELY IF EVER.

Frankly I like the clarity of bold when somebody responds to a quote and would appreciate more of you using what was designed into the board.

Like way down here, no bold.

[KY Blue in Carolina]

phoenix wrote: Anybody that doesn't like the bold in my posts please don't read them.

How to win friends & influence people? :rolleyes:

[KY Blue in Carolina]

phoenix wrote: Frankly I like the clarity of bold when somebody responds to a quote and would appreciate more of you using what was designed into the board.

Personally, I prefer the reply to a quote be below the quote, so that one does not have to look down to see in what the poster is responding to before looking back up to read the response. I also prefer that caps and bolding not be utilized.

But then again that is my preference.

[KY Blue in Carolina]

Will Lavender wrote: What's strange is that when I use the computers at Indiana University Southeast, via Mozilla, I have to type above quotes. If I don't want to post in bold, then I have to unclick bold before I type a word.

If I use Internet Explorer at IUS, I am able to type below the quote without bold.

If I type at home, however, also using Mozilla, then I can type below the quote.

I believe it has to do with certain versions of Mozilla, though I'm not sure.


IE and different versions of Firefox, and some PC configurations do indeed act differently with our software in a few instances including when quoting in a post.

[KY Blue in Carolina]

CatFanInTheBathtub wrote: I do like the bold, but isn't the natural place for a response afterthe original post ? Can't theyprogram it init so that any response is always in bold regardless of location?

The developers of the board software we use could, I'm sure.... We cannot without the source code - and as noted above, the different browsers generate different views in conjunction with the code. :shrug:

[phoenix]

It has nothing to do with winning friends or influencing people imo, and it is not the large issue to me that some of you seem to make of it. That may just be different perceptions of different personality types, or at least that is my guess.

And as for bold being hard to read, my quotes come up in bleak white and are sort of hard for me to read but my other background comes up a calming pale blue and it really makes it easy to read the bold print, thanks Aike and others that use it regularly, I appreciate when you use bold on your responses. I donot spend all my time emphasizing my response to various threads nor do I worry much about any use of caps, bold, italics, underlining, blue or colored type of various kinds, large graphics, small graphics,etc., other than to wonder how somebody got something to print like they did on the board if it is neat to look at. Obviously some others spend some time worrying about such things. I would probably be a better person if I did too. I will make it a resolution for the new year, and will worry about it a lot.;)

KY Blue in Carolina wrote:
phoenix wrote: Anybody that doesn't like the bold in my posts please don't read them.

How to win friends & influence people? :rolleyes:

[Wildcat Larry]

Just as prior clarification, the "you" in this post is a collective "you" and not address just to phoenix or any other poster. I think this is a good discussion.

Since I'm one of those who has mentioned the use of bold in posts, I guess I'll jump in here. For a long, long time on internet message boards bold type or all caps for an entire post have indicated that the poster is "yelling". On this software, I see what you are saying about how the bold works, but I also see why it works that way. When you hit the quote button, the cursor lands just in front of the poster's name that is being quoted and the word "wrote:". Both of those are in bold, so the cursor in already in the "bold mode" so to speak.

However, like Tom, I think that typing in your reply above what you are replying to doesn't let the thought flow properly. It makes much more sense to read the original post and then a poster's reply to it .... at least from my point of view. I have never seen it as a lot of trouble to click below the quote box to start my reply.

Another thing that tends to elongate threads and be basically useless in my mind is using the quote function when you are just replying to post right above your reply post. A lot of wasted space because I've just read the post above it and now I've got to pore through it to get to the reply, or if the reply is before the quote, I have to scroll down to get to the next post/reply. I think the quote is used a bit too much on our forums, but that's just my view of it.

Another good reason to use the quote function is to address just a particular issue of a post where you can bold the part of the quoted post you are addressing and then respond to that particular issue.

This is a good discussion and hope that more folks see it and contribute.

[tauzreborn]

For some reason, I have never liked caps or bold utilized in discussions.I do skip over the posts that are all caps or all bold. I feel that whatever point you are trying to make must not be worth reading if it must be decorated with such antics. If the post was worth reading, thetone and grammarused should be enough to express yourself.

[phoenix]

See, this is exactly the type of reader I don't want reading my posts, or responding to them for that matter, andthis posterdoesn't have to bother with them. It works out perfectly. I use the bold feature and it eliminates this type of poster right off the bat. Don't tell me it's bad. Excellent for both of us!!!:lol:

tauzreborn wrote:
For some reason, I have never liked caps or bold utilized in discussions.I do skip over the posts that are all caps or all bold. I feel that whatever point you are trying to make must not be worth reading if it must be decorated with such antics. If the post was worth reading, thetone and grammarused should be enough to express yourself.

[tauzreborn]

phoenix wrote: See, this is exactly the type of reader I don't want reading my posts, or responding to them for that matter, andthis posterdoesn't have to bother with them. It works out perfectly. I use the bold feature and it eliminates this type of poster right off the bat. Don't tell me it's bad. Excellent for both of us!!!:lol:

tauzreborn wrote:
For some reason, I have never liked caps or bold utilized in discussions.I do skip over the posts that are all caps or all bold. I feel that whatever point you are trying to make must not be worth reading if it must be decorated with such antics. If the post was worth reading, thetone and grammarused should be enough to express yourself.




With that kind of attitude phoenix, I might start reading your posts. :lol: