Please don't use bold text in your posts.

[Jet Cash]

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?

[AB de Royse777]

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.

[LoyceV]

Am I alone in this?

I rarely see posts that are completely in bold (probably because I don't read certain boards very often). But there's more to it than not using bold at all: use it wisely!
I use bold font quite often, but mainly for headers (see: example), and most of the time only when I'm creating a new topic. It can make your text easier to read when used wisely, just like colors.

[MFahad]

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?

Bold text do create some attention towards a particular point and emphasis what the author wants to say. If i come across a big post, and the key points are bold/Highlighted it may give quick idea for the post and i may not have to read the whole long post. For me, using it for few words or one/two sentence is ok but it is certainly not reading friendly if the whole post is bold or in different colors font.

[Welsh]

Bold is a tool, and definitely has its uses on the forum. A well constructed thread should probably include bold somewhere. For example, putting emphasis on titles or outlining important information within the thread. Posts/replies I would expect to see it less, although I believe it can still be used, and  still has its place, but would expect it to be used less often than threads.

[jackg]

There's a button that let's you read pages in Firefox without formatting or signatures or images...

On mobile it's next to the tabs button on the opposite side of settings, maybe you ought to try it. I think you can click the printable version and it does the same too...

[actmyname]

Bold text should be used sparingly and colored text should be seldom used. The combination thereof, then, should only be used in extremely rare situations.

Especially blue. God, what an ^{ug_{ly color}}.

When bold text is used to highlight passages or to emphasize specific terms then it's much more justified.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

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

You're not alone by any means.  It's annoying, and when I see titles in big capital letters or with symbols and so forth, I immediately assume it's some shitposter or scammer trying to use those petty little means to bring attention to their shitty thread.

Haven't seen you around in a while, Jet Cash.  Glad you're still here with us.

Bold text do create some attention towards a particular point and emphasis what the author wants to say.

Yeah, then every moron thinking he has something important to say (not usually the case) starts to do it, and then it's not long before everyone does it just to keep pace.  It's a neverending shit spiral and needs to be quashed.  Props to Jet Cash for bringing it up.

[Coyster]

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.

[UmerIdrees]

This is a thinking of a common writer.

[Theb]

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.

[dkbit98]

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

[Oilacris]

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. 

[nelson4lov]

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.

[Veleor]

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.

Can anyone shed some light here?

g++ -c -O0 -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wformat -g -D__WXMAC__ -DNOPCH -DBUILD_MACOSX -I"/usr/include" -I"/usr/local/include/wx-2.8" -I"/usr/local/include" -I"/usr/local/boost_1_41_0" -I"/sw/include/db4" -I"/usr/local/ssl/include" -I"/usr/local/lib/wx/include/mac-ansi-release-2.8" -o headers.h.gch headers.h
...
ui.h:430: error: no matching function for call to 'wxTextCtrl::SetValue(const std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >&)'
/usr/local/include/wx-2.8/wx/textctrl.h:303: note: candidates are: virtual void wxTextCtrlBase::SetValue(const wxString&)

It looks like the implicit conversion from std::string to wxString isn't working.  That's used everywhere, the conversion needs to work. <...>

[tranthidung]

Not only bold, but also font, colors, capitalization, glow, etc.
Bitcointalk posting etiquette

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.

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

[CHRISBIN702]

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.

[philipma1957]

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.

[joniboini]

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.'

[TheNewAnon135246]

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