I kind of like using <i> for other user’s names that appears in a sentence. For example if a joker calls them self, “you piece of shit” it would be kind of unfortunate for another user to open up a dialog and it says: “Are you sure you want to delete the user you piece of shit?” Now with the user’s name in italics, this is less ambiguous.
In general I think many UXs are too shy about using italics.
In general I think many UXs are too shy about using italics.