I’ve also never had any issues with bolding/italicizing etc and noting that you did so. However, lately I’ve taken to untagging the quote if I’m going to do anything more than that. I’ve seen people get noted for ping in way that maybe could change the meaning of the post and figured I’m probably safer just to do that then risk anything.
My, possibly incorrect, understanding has been that you have some extra wiggle room with quote if it’s not clearly attributed to the person.
To be fair, that would be genuinely helpful for those of us using the Vincent theme which, for all intents and purposes, doesn’t work. Bolded text appears nearly identical to regular text. The only time I see it is when someone says ‘bolding mine’ and I go back to look for it.
ETA, huh, quoting that disappeared all the formatting. I only quoted that one line, so I’m not surprised the bullet is gone, but I didn’t expect the color to disappear too.
I thought the “My Bolding” was mandatory and not optional. I’m surprised to learn it is not. But if ECG says it isn’t; good enough for me. I don’t know if it is official but I consider ECG our Lead Mod.
But honestly I don’t care much about it anyway and wouldn’t be likely to hand out a warning for such a minor thing without some extenuating circumstance.
I disagree with your disagreement . Not strongly enough that I couldn’t be bribed for half a candy bar. But still…I have never used bolding exclusively for user names. That’s something those old, traditionalist '99ers are concerned about, not us young '00er hepcats.
Can’t it be both? On my box, anyway, the bolding stands out better in a block of text than either italic or underlining. If a reader can’t distinguish between Pleonast and a long line of bolded text, that’s on them.
Bolding and italics for emphasis in quoting has always been allowed to my knowledge, provided it is made clear. What has been ostensibly prohibited is the altering of quoted text or pulling it completely out of context, although even this rule has been subjectively and inaptly applied. I once had a poster quote a part of a sentence from a post to make it appear that I was stating something that was completely at odds with my actual statement (which was clear from the entire post in context) and the response from the then-moderation was that if I had an issue with it was to start a Pit thread, which I did and then for which I received a ‘private warning’ and a prohibition from interacting with that poster regardless of what they said or did regarding my posts. So the inconsistency in moderation is scarcely a new thing.
From my days as a journo I remember that the convention was that a Name was in bold the first time it appeared in a text, but subsequent use of that Name was not.
. Not strongly enough that I couldn’t be bribed for half a candy bar. But still…I have never used bolding exclusively for user names. That’s something those old, traditionalist '99ers are concerned about, not us young '00er hepcats.