Rich (I'm assuming you just did some kind of update),

What does it mean that some people's names are now bolded or italicized?

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Paul Korte
OPC
Flint, MI

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Those are Admins. I'm not satisfied with it now. I just realized it messed up the username display and I was really more interested in making them more "findable" in the Online Users.

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Rich
PCA, Northern VA
Student, New Geneva Theological Seminary

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To be clear, bold names are moderators, and bold plus italics are admins.

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They also don't affect the display in the "buddy list".

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Ruben
Moderator
F.P.C.I.
Indiana

Vanities and disguises have covered us, and thereby we are naked; licenciousness hath inflam'd us, and thereby we are frozen; voluptuousness hath fed us, and thereby we are sterved, the fancies and traditions of men have taught and instructed us, and thereby we are ignorant.
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Teología en Mexico
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Then did we get some new moderators? Because if not, then on my display at least there are bold names which aren't. If so: then, well, never mind and rock on.

Yes, Paul, we do have a couple new moderators.

Shhhhh...

I'm trying to fix that.

Haha. Nice.

I like the bolded usernames. It gives me a sense of awe and dread and makes me want to lay my hand over my mouth in the bolded typeface of of authority. This will come in handy when Ruben sends me a u2u telling me that he's going to infract me if I don't make his dinner.

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Heidi
Indianapolis, Indiana

Patience must dwell with Love, for Love and Sorrow
Have pitched their tent together here:
Love all alone will build a house tomorrow,
And sorrow not be near. -Christina Rossetti

I'd like to report a case of moderatorial abuse of power.

I concur with Heidi Now it is clear who I shouldn't make fun of. The admins are always helpin' a brotha' out

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"Wherever the gospel is preached, it is as if God Himself came into the midst of us." ~ John Calvin

No, no, do not challenge the bolded and italicized ones. Our typeface cannot sustain their anger . . .

My typeface has already crumbled under batman's strong hand. He has shown me the error of my ways and sent me down the path of right-puritan-board-conduct.

People, it doesn't say El Tirano under my name for no reason.

I'm very happy for you.

Now I have to go make Ruben's dinner.

I like the bold. The italicization scares me.

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Maybe, instead of italicizing for emphasis we can use a Hebraism and repeat the bolded usernames to distinguish them from Mods.

greenbaggins greenbaggins for administrators

Semper Fidelis Semper Fidelis Semper Fidelis for super administrators

Is that less scary?

Do it.

There's a small percentage of danger that my mind might get stuck repeating 'Semper Fidelis' and I might have to bang my head helplessly against something to make it stop.

Oh no! The attack of the super-killer stuck-record obsessive-compulsive moderator-wife! Look out, wall (or whatever she decides to make her target)!

Heidi,

I have long thought that you suffered mercilessly under the heavy-handed yoke of Ruben's dictatorial rule. To add boldness, even in so trifling a matter as typography, to his already demonstrated proclivity for grandiosity, must be a particularly severe burden to bear.

However, reading your posts on this thread make me ask how, with so sharp a razor-edged tongue, you have not slit open the side of your mouth when burying it so far into your cheek?

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Careful, Lane, I have shared a meal with this couple. You do NOT want to cross her!!! My physical therapist says that with a lot of hard work I may yet learn to walk (after a fashion) following my last encounter with Heidi. Who knows, people can almost understand my speech now too.

So, let me get this straight. That would be the same as:

Exceedingly Greenbaggins

and

Perfectly Semper Fidelis

That's definitely bold.

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Maybe we should simply employ a perfective use of the preposition: Hyper-greenbaggins, ek-semperfi, ek-py3ak

Rev. Keister I was trying to keep my identity as 'Super-killer Stuck-record Obsessive-compulsive Moderator-wife Woman' a secret. Ruben can wear a mask but no mask can stay intact on my helplessly battering head.

Heidi,

You're making this much too complicated. Submit yourself to your own Moderator.

Yes, Oh Mighty Bold and Italicized Semper Fidelis Semper Fidelis Semper Fidelis!

I've never met Ruben, but I'm guessing he's a big marshmallow of a guy. Between the El Tirano heading, the Batman imagery, etc. I'm guessing he's just sweet as pie and then some. The kind of guy who gets his cheeks pinched by his aunt and then blushes and says "aw shucks, Aunt May..."

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Zion United Reformed Church of Sheffield
Ontario, Canada

I stepped forcefully on the feet of the last woman to pinch my cheeks.

That just makes you a bad dancer, not "El Tirano". It's probably more like "El Amorcito Guapisimo".

Well, there's no debate on the guapísimo part. But the large woman who was torturing random children on the streets of Mexico City lost her vacuous smile. She may also have begun to use steel-toed shoes.

(Soy la mujer de Mexico, y le estoy pidiendo la computadora a Prufrock)

Necessito decir que El Tirano es mentiroso; esta tan agradable y nunca le ha pisado el dedo de nadie. El, de veras, me pellizco el cachete, y yo le pise el dedo. Dudo que este hombre les diria esto (estaria tan azorado), pero es verdad. Osito de peluche...

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That was weird: this large Mexican woman with vacuous smile just came in and stole my computer. She also apologized for her poor grammar (she says she hasn't spoken that language in a long while...)

Señora, con respeto, no sé lo que Ud. ha estado fumando, pero lo recuerdo como si fuera ayer - su maquillaje excesivo, sus tacones rojos, y la expresión de su cara cuando la pisé con toda mi fuerza. He esperado toda mi vida para esta oportunidad, y me da gran gusto informarle que si la viera otra vez, nuevamente le pisaría sus pies por el insulto que hizo al pellizcar mis mejillas. Tratarme como animal porque soy rubio era una falla moral solamente igualada por la abominación de sastrería que era su vestido.

Prufrock, thanks for passing that message along. I feel like I can now get on with my life.

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I passed it along. Then she kicked me with those heels. Pointy.

She's a menace, Paul. I wish I had known how to file a restraining order when I was five.

The faults of youth.

Don't worry, I stepped and pinched for you before I kicked her out. There is, however, a lot of makeup on my hands now... Should have thought that one through.

Can you guys keep it down in here? I'm trying to study for tomorrow's sermon. Do you know how difficult it is to study Greek while someone's blabbering in Spanish?