(Anonymous) 2013-04-07 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I think this is very much a YMMV thing. Personally I like it because it lends an easy visual distinction - sure, everything we write is in text but that's not so for the characters.

Though that said, it does bug me when people use the code that results in the text going tiny. I'd rather no coding at all than coding that makes stuff that much harder to read.