# Is "Bolding mine" on a quote: required, polite, unnecessary or other? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 30, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480 "2018-03-30T15:13:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/41 "2018-04-04T01:43:54Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I thnk I used the wrong term. Maybe it’s ‘spearfishing’? … Even more so regarding **ecg** comment… I’ll sit this one out. But I was reading some ancient (1999) ATMBs, and some guy kept “getting a new mail account” and signing in under a new name after he was banned. [cite if necessary; some asshole who re-signed in as “Adolf Hitler.” This is also what we’re talking about–is it?–, although I’m not sure it has a cutesy name. But maybe that was possible then. I think the mod techno dazzle is equipped for that now. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/42 "2018-04-04T02:51:08Z")
I’m occasionally confused when I see “bolding mine” (or “bolding in original”) and I have to squint to see what exactly was bolded because the bold face doesn’t look terribly different than the normal typeface, such as seems to be the case with the italic typeface used here in quotes. And I generally have pretty good attention for detail. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2018, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/43 "2018-04-04T03:05:30Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Leo Bloom** : > > But I was reading some ancient (1999) ATMBs, and some guy kept “getting a new mail account” and signing in under a new name after he was banned. [cite if necessary; some asshole who re-signed in as “Adolf Hitler.” That’s called socking (or sock puppeting), and we’ve had lots and lots of those, too many to count. We’re better at catching it now, but it still sometimes takes a little while. Especially if the new account doesn’t catch our attention-- So if you think that someone is a sock, contact a mod and let us know, because you just might be right. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/44 "2018-04-05T21:07:00Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > I’m occasionally confused when I see “ **bolding mine** ” (or “bolding in original”) and I have to squint to see what exactly was bolded because the bold face doesn’t look terribly different than the normal typeface, such as seems to be the case with the italic typeface used here in quotes. And I generally have pretty good attention for detail. Bolding mine. I have the same problem. Maybe we should start italicizing instead. Or unitalicizing, if it were possible. Maybe underlining. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/45 "2018-04-05T23:09:49Z")
Fortunately, I :smack: realized what “bolding mine” meant, just before clicking the Google search button to find out how many bolding mines there are in the US and Canada. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/46 "2018-04-05T23:21:00Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > **Bone** did a compilation of warnings a few months ago. There are a set of standard infractions, such as “Personal insults,” “Failure to follow a moderator’s instructions,” “Being a jerk,” “Trolling,” etc. It is also possible to issue a custom infraction (which would include multiple offenses in the same post). The standard “Personal Insults” covers almost half of all warnings. Some of the custom warnings also include insults as one of the offenses. **Bone** is data-mining our infractions? Seems a tad … [DEL]Google[/DEL] Facebook-y for the SDMB. (j/k) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/47 "2018-04-06T00:50:55Z")
Well, they said upthread that the newbie gets the cleaning tasks. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/48 "2018-04-06T01:37:06Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > Bolding mine. > > I have the same problem. Maybe we should start italicizing instead. Or unitalicizing, if it were possible. Maybe underlining. If you are using windows, you might want to make sure yoh have cleartext on, or if it is, run through the configuration choices again. One of the things configuring it does is set the weight of regular vs bold fonts. If you are using an Apple device, I have no idea other than maybe check your contrast and brightness settings. On my iPad and PC bolded text is very clearly bolded. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/49 "2018-04-06T01:52:15Z")
I suspect that they’re on mobile devices, or at least the mobile skin, given that they’re talking about quotes being in italics. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/50 "2018-04-06T02:35:55Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > I thnk I used the wrong term. Maybe it’s ‘spearfishing’? In any event, what I meant was the malicious use of constant demands for cites where they really aren’t needed, followed by rejecting the cite on specious grounds and demanding more. Cites are important when making factual claims, but the demand for them followed by ignoring them or intentionally misreading them as a distraction is a form of disingenuous argumentation that has been growing in popularity. It seems we need a word for this. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/51 "2018-04-07T21:06:36Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > Graping mine. The late, very missed, [The Grapist](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php), used purple for his grapings. I admit I am grape apologist. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/52 "2018-04-09T14:13:54Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > The late, very missed, [The Grapist](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php), used purple for his grapings. I admit I am grape apologist. It means your parents did a fine job raisin you. Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/53 "2018-04-09T15:24:10Z")
I thought so, but there’s actual color called ‘grape’, and I couldn’t resist. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/54 "2018-04-09T17:37:12Z")
I don’t think there is an actual color called “grape”, or at least, if there is, it’s not recognized by Firefox, and it’s not a light greenish blue. If I’m not mistaken, that’s just color 00a0e0, which is Firefox’s best attempt at turning the word “grape” into something that it can interpret as a color. On preview, yes, that’s it exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/55 "2018-04-11T12:48:26Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > The late, very missed, [The Grapist](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php), used purple for his grapings. I admit I am grape apologist. Did someone just give up their secret identity? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/56 "2018-04-11T16:45:16Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I don’t think there is an actual color called “grape”, or at least, if there is, it’s not recognized by Firefox, and it’s not a light greenish blue. If I’m not mistaken, that’s just color 00a0e0, which is Firefox’s best attempt at turning the word “grape” into something that it can interpret as a color. > > On preview, yes, that’s it exactly. There’s a defined color called grape. There’s a hex equivalent. I don’t use firefox, and just assumed that vBulletin converts the color in the tag to a hex equivalent. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480/57 "2018-04-22T02:52:07Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > **Bone** did a compilation of warnings a few months ago. There are a set of standard infractions, such as “Personal insults,” “Failure to follow a moderator’s instructions,” “Being a jerk,” “Trolling,” etc. It is also possible to issue a custom infraction (which would include multiple offenses in the same post). The standard “Personal Insults” covers almost half of all warnings. Some of the custom warnings also include insults as one of the offenses. That is a great idea, and I wish new posters would read it. In fact, when I get appointed Scoutmaster here, I’ll require that all new posters need to lurk for three weeks (and read a hundred threads) before they post. Oh, and click on “real news” sources at least once a week, learn to Google, and read Bone’s list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-bolding-mine-on-a-quote-required-polite-unnecessary-or-other/811480.md?page=2)