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[Arcon]

Honestly? Comparing me to Rossina over a font color and type size change is a huuuge fallacy.

Only if your interpretation is unreasonably shallow. In terms of wanting to stand out for something irrelevant it does compare.

Honestly -- this is not a contest to "stand out", but why would you make it seem that way?

We're not making it seem that way, you are. What other reason could you possibly have to use a different font? Because rationally there is none. In fact, rationally there are several reasons against it. You may have noticed my post suddenly looking like ass as well. That's not my doing. I'm specifically didn't bother erasing your ugly-ass font when I started my post to prove a point, because that's what everyone quoting you partially will have to do. That's just one of the problems, that your font brings. Aside from that, both the size and the color are harder to read than the regular font, it may actually physically hurt some people with certain eye-related disabilities.

It carries zero intellectual information, only cosmetic information. And cosmetic information is, by default, only useful to look pretty. And what possible reason could you have for wanting your forum posts to look pretty (disregarding the fact that most people seem to disagree with you on its effect in the first place)?

[..] at this point I'm pretty sure everyone' just nitpicking for the sake of having something to complain about.

This is the FFXI forums. Trust me, the people on here have more than enough things to complain about. I wouldn't be writing any of this if I didn't have a reason to disagree. There are only reasons against it and no reasons for it (aside from personal ones). That makes your posting style factually bad.

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Note that I have nothing against formatting text for a specific purpose. It's a good feature for highlighting certain parts of a post or when used to convey some sort of information in a specific way. But I don't see any reason why everything you say has to be of a certain format. And for the same reason, I don't get why people format their instant messenger text either, but at least I can override all of those.