# Board Culture: Bolding User Names **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 30, 2012, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-culture-bolding-user-names/623531 "2012-05-30T11:01:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-culture-bolding-user-names/623531/41 "2012-05-31T13:53:40Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Note that when one uses the board autoquote function, the username is bolded. I hardly ever use all those new fangled buttons…I still code my posts the old fashioned way!! :p. I think the OP meant in the body of the post, though, not bolded in any quote from another poster. -XT ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-culture-bolding-user-names/623531/42 "2012-05-31T16:34:36Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > I was not suggesting a rule but a note in the Etiquette FAQ on a longstanding, now going out of style custom. Sorry for ever bringing it up! You should refuse to bold the user names of the people who took it as a rule suggestion, you know, just to show them your contempt for their reading abilities. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-culture-bolding-user-names/623531/43 "2012-05-31T16:50:29Z")
Stop attacking people!!!1!!! Mods!!! Cheshire human is suggesting attacking people!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-culture-bolding-user-names/623531/44 "2012-05-31T18:09:02Z")
> [@XT](#): > > I hardly ever use all those new fangled buttons…I still code my posts the old fashioned way!! :p. I did that for a long time, until they got rid of the auto italics in quotes. I still do occassionally. > [@](#): > > I think the OP meant in the body of the post, though, not bolded in any quote from another poster. Right, anytime you use another poster’s name, bold it. I was just pointing out an instance where the board software cites names, it bolds them. I am well aware that is a slightly different situation than in the body of text. The board software has very little reason to automatically insert usernames into paragraphs. Otherwise, I’d see what it did there. And I realize what the board software does is not a constraint on what posters must do. Hell, I specifically manually coded quotes precisely because I didn’t like the auto feature presentation. All I was saying was, “here is one example of how the board does it automatically, and thus contributes to expectations”. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-culture-bolding-user-names/623531/45 "2012-05-31T18:15:28Z")
If anyone bolds my username, I’ll cry so hard I throw up. You’ve been warned. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-culture-bolding-user-names/623531/46 "2012-05-31T18:17:21Z")
Sorry, Giraffe, I’m not falling for it this time. ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-culture-bolding-user-names/623531/47 "2012-05-31T20:24:33Z")
**Giraffe.** Pics or it didn’t happen. ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-culture-bolding-user-names/623531/48 "2012-06-03T08:51:28Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > Stop attacking people!!!1!!! > Mods!!! Cheshire human is suggesting attacking people!!! Hey!!! You didn’t bold my name, you evil cad, you!!eleven.!! > [@](#): > > 😉 Oh, nevermind… [/emilylitella] ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2012, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-culture-bolding-user-names/623531/49 "2012-06-03T08:57:11Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > If anyone bolds my username, I’ll cry so hard I throw up. You’ve been warned. Making **Giraffe** cry is my only reason for living. **Giraffe, Giraffe, Giraffe,**!!one!!eleven!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/board-culture-bolding-user-names/623531.md?page=2)