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Re:Richard Stallman on his experience in Cuba by blasdel on Friday February 13, 2009 @07:24PM (#480684)
No, you no can has bold.

Italics are allowed because they allow you to annotate emphasis without making the text stand out more than normal -- you only notice it inline. Allowing bold would lead to asshats writing like Jeff Atwood.

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Re:Richard Stallman on his experience in Cuba by Hexstream on Saturday February 14, 2009 @12:50PM (#481264)
I wouldn't mind if there was a limit (maybe as few as 3) on the number of words you can make bold. Or a percentage of your post, or something. Now that I think about it the same solution could be used to support blockquote (ex: max 2 blockquotes in a post + other restrictions). After all the argument against implementing it was that excessive use of quoting is often bad style.

I think it's pretty ridiculous not to support useful features just because 1% of people might misuse it.

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