This forum has a lot of coding related posts. Not everyone uses camelCase for all variable names, and if you have two snake_case variables anywhere in a post, the forum will by default automatically assume you want everything between them in italics. Even if the two are separated by multiple paragraphs. That makes absolutely NO sense on a forum like this. And while yes, code blocks certainly exist for longer pieces of code, I shouldn't need one every time I reference a variable name!
The same is true for pointers*