Bolded text is taunting me. It's taunting meeeeeee. *updated*

If you were sk- oh wait we shouldn't mention names here since you know they /might/ actually fix it. If you were chatting online with someone via an instant messenger that starts with the letter 's' and they said something like...

I know you are hugs Noah I need to find the fluffy kitten video that showed up on my tumblr and link you.

or

has terrible luck

oor

[3:00:22 PM] Kendall: is trying not to spoil it

...you notice the bolded text? Yes? You do? Oh good because let me tell you something THEY TOOK AWAY MY **** (<-stars). They made it so if you put something in *here like this* it deletes the stars and bolds the text. This has been going on for several months but today I finally decided to complain about it (in a very civil manner to their representative) because enough is *enough*.

Guess what he told me?
It's a *feature*. It's a feature. *sobs* oh wait now it would be sobs 
I use the stars a LOT. I actually run into bolded text more than once a day because I use them that often. I use all the letters *, . , ? , and - the most.

Oh hey wait a moment people have complained. In that case I'm calling Microsoft's Skype out on it. Screw you developer(s) who thought this was a good idea. I hope you never work for Microsoft again. And just in case you lovely Microsoft people actually search the web looking for negative feedback on your currently terrible skype here is just ONE unhappy person and a list of threads of people complaining.

One unhappy forum thread.
THIS IS DATED FROM JUNE-another unhappy thread
Dated from July- more unhappy people
hey read the comments on the blog post people complained there too

There are thousands of people that don't complain and are annoyed by the feature, just know that.

I've been patient thus far but I didn't realize it had been that long ago since the problem started. I am posting this thread so all my readers know. Microsoft doesn't care about you. You complained and complained and they didn't fix it in HALF A YEAR (heck a check box to disable it- all they needed to do was code a check box, I'm assuming that's easy- it is easy right?). I will find alternative program and use that instead. If I like it enough after all my friends switch (all 100+ of them) we will probably uninstall skype and delete it forever.


 Skype is a terrible software. If you like to use your * for things like *hugs* and *kisses* do not download it. It will change that line from the above to: like hugs and kisses do not download it.
Later all my fabulous readers.
p.s. if you are irritated by the disappearance of the ***** and all the bolded text above. Comment below. Maybe someone from The Skype team might see this and do something about it.

The above is supposed to be a bit funny, at the same time though I am not kidding when I say it bugs me. I'm sure its convenient for them to use something that has already been released/used on the web before. However if they were a truly innovated company they would try to make it their own and give the users a right to disable it/change the hotkey setting. Please. Let us disable it/change the hotkey. Please? Should I bold that to make my point clearer? Looks at skype with puppy dog eyes PLEASE fix this or give us a way to turn it off.