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What's it with highlighting things in bold lately?

I couldn't help noticing that many posts lately have keywords and/or whole phrases highlighted in bold typeface. This is an entirely new phenomenon, I don't remember seeing this previously, or at least not in such conspicuous proportion.

Can please somebody enlighten me, why?

Maybe it's not a bad thing, I can't decide yet.

Thanks,

JW

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This, for example?

I'm not sure it's entirely new, but certainly the prevalence has greatly increased.

No idea why - shame people can't similarly learn to use the code formatting ...

 

>> shame people can't similarly learn to use the code formatting ...

Or communicate useful detail for problem diagnosis..

It's not just here, so perhaps via AI chat or translation. I find it visually distracting.

https://portal.u-blox.com/s/question/0D5Oj00000msUwuKAE/local-logging-of-relative-position-data-in-moving-base-rtk-setup-section-222

https://portal.u-blox.com/s/question/0D5Oj00000mPXtWKAW/im-trying-to-moving-baseline-rtk-using-two-c099f9p

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@Tesla DeLorean wrote:

>> shame people can't similarly learn to use the code formatting ...

Or communicate useful detail for problem diagnosis..


Indeed.

I've also noticed an increase in the number of posts with a great many words, often with many headings & sub-headings, yet conveying very little useful information.

 

It does, indeed, smell of AI.

raptorhal2
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I use bold for submitter text extracted that I am responding to.

>>I use bold for submitter text extracted that I am responding to

And that's fine, I think the complaint here is random high-light/emphasis and walls of text.

I would encourage participants here to use the forms that work for them, even using native language where they can express themselves most fully, as the translation options have got so much better. Photos of hand drawn diagrams, also very workable means of conveying details and flow.

End-users have historically presented briefly without a lot of formatting, some of the recent posts are looking more mechanically generated.

I'm not sure we're going to change behaviour, and use of AI for first level support ideas and check-lists, but rather just confirming Jan's and Andrew's observation

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