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Kind-of unrelated: the recent fashion of bolding certain parts of one's blog posts really turns me off reading them. If you have to tell me which parts of the t
by josscrowcroft 14y ago
Kind-of unrelated: the recent fashion of bolding certain parts of one's blog posts really turns me off reading them. If you have to tell me which parts of the text are important, you're not writing properly!
- dasil003 14y agoThis style has been around online for at least a decade in the wall-of-text infomercial-style hard-sell brochure sites selling digital information products, and I presume is some adaptation of previous direct mail marketing or somesuch. If you're only noticing it now it's just a sign of the times of "startup" culture going mainstream.