No ... it the fact that that many don't. And then they state things later I never said, often the exact opposite.
I bold/red so the
people that 'skim' my posts will still
get the main message. It's very effective, and I learned it writing technical documentation for Air Force and other techs when I was young.
Same with the thousands of pages of technical documentation. Unlike message boards, you have to be complete in technical documentation, but ... becauase people who
'skim,' the bolding/red actually ensure they
'remember what's most important.'
Today, in Markdown/Asciidoc today, which converts 1:1 to DocBook XML (which every publisher can use, even book and other print needed systems), I use the following ...
> IMPORTANT:
> NOTE:
> TIP:
> WARNING:
You can see an example of this in something I cranked out really fast (literally at a conference) that is freely available (among countless other sites).
learning.lpi.org
Most publication systems catch those, and insert images too. As I mentioned, I've been publishing for 25 years. It works. You can
make fun of it all you want, but ...
it works.