Everyone sees a new post as bold until they leave the board. For example, when I clicked ou your post it was bold for me. When I leave and go to Yahoo, or I go back to the list of all topics on the board it will no longer be bold. The same is true for when you "look" at a post and go back to the forum home page. When you create a post it will always be regular text for you, since you have already "viewed" it while you were creating it!! HTH!!