Tried to bold a poster's name using the asterisk method, and again using the bold button - neither worked, and when I tried to post an asterisk in a post, it didn't appear. So weird, and by the looks of the thread I was on, at least one other poster has had this problem in the last little while.
This isn't a problem with the @ mentioning. It's a complete failure of asterisks to work as formatting and to post, and a complete failure of bolding, even though I can see the asterisks in the message window and also the bolded word/name before I hit post.
Windows, PC..