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Dumb Curiosity Question

Krimpette — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:40:38 GMT

As to the forums: How come some of the names of the authors of posts are in bold and others are in small letters and not bolded? Those that are not bolded also seem to be posters with very few posts. Just curious. Probably a logical explanation, so sorry for the dumb question.

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Tinkrbl44 — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:47:54 GMT

@Krimpette wrote:
As to the forums: How come some of the names of the authors of posts are in bold and others are in small letters and not bolded? Those that are not bolded also seem to be posters with very few posts. Just curious. Probably a logical explanation, so sorry for the dumb question.

@Krimpette

Sorry, Krimpette, but it's not a dumb question, so no need to label it as such.

What comes to mind is a favorite Dear Abby quote:

"We're ALL ignorant .... only on different subjects."

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Krimpette — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:48:50 GMT

@Tinkrbl44 Thanks for the quote!!!

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bri20 — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:54:54 GMT

All of the authors are bolded for me

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Photo Donna — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 20:58:41 GMT

me too -- all bold

Hi Bri!

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bri20 — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:00:21 GMT

Hi, @Photo Donna!

Hope you and the family are well

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Mz iMac — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:04:24 GMT

I never noticed that until you mentioned it. So I clicked on all the non bolded name postings.

It appears the non bolded names are "newbies," those w/under 100 postings. Or maybe 50 postings.

FWIW....

The only dumb questions are the ones NEVER asked!

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Krimpette — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:05:22 GMT

To those who are seeing all bold, are all authors also showing in upper and lower case? Are any lower case only? (FWIW: I'm using my old MacBook Pro.)

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mzlg — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:10:32 GMT

@Krimpette, I never really noticed that ... good question! You're correct ... when I checked, most under the "Author" title, were in bold type and a few were in lighter shade type. I checked as to how often these lighter shaded ones posted ... only a few times. Where as the bold type were often. However, I don't know if that is the reason why or why it would even make a difference.

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bri20 — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:10:48 GMT

I see lower case and upper case and then the numbered poster all in bold.

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proudlyfromNJ — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:12:29 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:
I never noticed that until you mentioned it. So I clicked on all the non bolded name postings.
It appears the non bolded names are "newbies," those w/under 100 postings. Or maybe 50 postings.

FWIW....
The only dumb questions are the ones NEVER asked!

@Mz iMac I see the same thing you do. Non bolded appear to be new. Bolded posters have more posts. I am on an IPad if that makes any difference to posters that don't see bolded and non bolded.

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Moonchilde — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:18:11 GMT

I tested out the "only new posters" theory, and one of the thread starters names that show up in regular, non-bolded font for me is a thread with 10 pages and a poster with almost 10,000 posts. So it's not only new posters. Maybe it's posters who have only started very few threads.

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Krimpette — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:21:21 GMT

Whew! I'm glad others are seeing that also. I've always been curious about it and finally decided to try to delve further. Interesting! (At least to me!!!!)

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mzlg — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:21:58 GMT

Krimpette wrote:
To those who are seeing all bold, are all authors also showing in upper and lower case? Are any lower case only? (FWIW: I'm using my old MacBook Pro.)

@Krimpette, however the poster's created or spelled their Nic ... If upper & lower case, all caps or all lower case, that is how it is showing up. You can 'click' on that Nic/name and read their posts and/or comments.

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WenGirl42 — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:45:57 GMT

@Moonchilde wrote:
I tested out the "only new posters" theory, and one of the thread starters names that show up in regular, non-bolded font for me is a thread with 10 pages and a poster with almost 10,000 posts. So it's not only new posters. Maybe it's posters who have only started very few threads.

@Moonchilde If you're talking about the poster on the first page, that's an interesting one. The name in the OP is not bolded, but currently that same poster has the last reply and that name *is* bolded. But even though the names look identical, there are 2 separate accounts (hovering over them shows 2 unique user IDs). The non-bolded named account has fewer than 40 posts under that version of the name. It's the bolded name that has the account with almost 10,000 posts.

Edited to say I don't think this poster is doing or has done anything shady with the 2 accounts...it reads to me like some sort of technical glitch like many posters had where they suddenly couldn't log into their regular account at some point. I just pointed it out to show that I don't think it disproves the post count hypothesis

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GenXmuse — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:50:12 GMT

I've noticed the same thing! Are the non-bolded posters' names clickable?

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Moonchilde — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:04:14 GMT

@WenGirl42 wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
I tested out the "only new posters" theory, and one of the thread starters names that show up in regular, non-bolded font for me is a thread with 10 pages and a poster with almost 10,000 posts. So it's not only new posters. Maybe it's posters who have only started very few threads.
@Moonchilde If you're talking about the poster on the first page, that's an interesting one. The name in the OP is not bolded, but currently that same poster has the last reply and that name *is* bolded. But even though the names look identical, there are 2 separate accounts (hovering over them shows 2 unique user IDs). The non-bolded named account has fewer than 40 posts under that version of the name. It's the bolded name that has the account with almost 10,000 posts.

Edited to say I don't think this poster is doing or has done anything shady with the 2 accounts...it reads to me like some sort of technical glitch like many posters had where they suddenly couldn't log into their regular account at some point. I just pointed it out to show that I don't think it disproves the post count hypothesis

Thank you, @WenGirl42. I can't 'hover' on an iPad (at least, I don't believe I can), but I believe ya ;-)

'Tis still somewhat of a mystery altogether. I have never noticed it, and probably wouldn't have except for this thread.

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Kachina624 — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:23:58 GMT

When a person chooses a name, it will appear in the manner she chose to write it. If she put all caps, that's how it will appear. Most people just capitalize the first letter. Some people with small egos just do all lower case.

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occasionalrain — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:28:59 GMT

So where are the Q Enforcers? If anything at all naughty had been posted this thread would been have gone in minutes. It's been two hours and nothing.

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ChynnaBlue — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:52:57 GMT

@Mz iMac wrote:

FWIW....
The only dumb questions are the ones NEVER asked!

As a teacher and trainer, that's exactly what I always tell people.

But there are dumb questions. SO MANY dumb questions.

The OP's question isn't one of them, but they do exist.