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Off Topic: When did the bolding usernames start, doubleofive? It's one of my favorite quirks of the board, but I'm always slightly concerned that it's actually very common on other sites and I just never knew.

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timdiggerm said:


Off Topic: When did the bolding usernames start, doubleofive? It's one of my favorite quirks of the board, but I'm always slightly concerned that it's actually very common on other sites and I just never knew.
It's only because they're bold on the subject line on this particular forum.

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doubleofive said:

timdiggerm said:


Off Topic: When did the bolding usernames start, doubleofive? It's one of my favorite quirks of the board, but I'm always slightly concerned that it's actually very common on other sites and I just never knew.

It's only because they're bold on the subject line on this particular forum.

 Ooh. I thought it spread as a way to make fun of some particular user who did it first. I can't remember who, or I'd bold their name.

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timdiggerm said:



doubleofive said:


timdiggerm said:

Off Topic: When did the bolding usernames start, doubleofive? It's one of my favorite quirks of the board, but I'm always slightly concerned that it's actually very common on other sites and I just never knew.


It's only because they're bold on the subject line on this particular forum.


 Ooh. I thought it spread as a way to make fun of some particular user who did it first. I can't remember who, or I'd bold their name.
I use it like the @ symbol on Twitter, like you're calling them out.

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doubleofive said:

I'm sure that was cost prohibitive for an in-house effects studio. It was never supposed to be a grand restoration, it was supposed to be something to get TV stations to want to air 40 year old reruns.

 In other words, they're cheap.

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DuracellEnergizer said:



doubleofive said:

I'm sure that was cost prohibitive for an in-house effects studio. It was never supposed to be a grand restoration, it was supposed to be something to get TV stations to want to air 40 year old reruns.


 In other words, they're cheap.
That's one way of putting it. ;-)

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DuracellEnergizer said:

doubleofive said:

I'm sure that was cost prohibitive for an in-house effects studio. It was never supposed to be a grand restoration, it was supposed to be something to get TV stations to want to air 40 year old reruns.

 In other words, they're cheap.

 In other words, they're not willing to spend more money than it's going to make.

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doubleofive said:

timdiggerm said:


Off Topic: When did the bolding usernames start, doubleofive? It's one of my favorite quirks of the board, but I'm always slightly concerned that it's actually very common on other sites and I just never knew.

It's only because they're bold on the subject line on this particular forum.

 Er, what?

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TV's Frink said:



doubleofive said:


timdiggerm said:

Off Topic: When did the bolding usernames start, doubleofive? It's one of my favorite quirks of the board, but I'm always slightly concerned that it's actually very common on other sites and I just never knew.


It's only because they're bold on the subject line on this particular forum.


 Er, what?
We bold because they are bold here already, no? It's not a universal forum sign of "screenname" is it?

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That post makes me thinks Frakes could have made a decent Kirk-like captain in another show, and I'm far from a TOS fan.

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I'm staying in the vineyard and doing a real man's work.

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Why'd they put Troi in a red uniform? She's clearly a member of the sciences.

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