Thanks very much for your agreement with me about boldfacing, supersizing, colors and caps. I also tend not to read posts like that...period, because whatever they are attempting to convey, trying to read them makes me feel like I'm being screamed at from some large, high perch.
As for "truly academic" discussions---because I am not an academic, nor can I claim any time spent in the world of academia, I am always grateful to see purity of truth expressed in simplicity of language.
I don't know how many other full-time lurkers, and only rare-times posters like me may see it the same way.
IOW, Free Republic seems to have something for everyone.