Full disclosure, I have color vision issues. However I looked at your post again immediately after you told me about connecting the threads and I still could not discern any difference between the message and the link. Since then you have edited the post, and now that the link is on another line I can tell the difference but barely. I cannot see any difference in the original message appearing as a quote. So me missing links might all be down to my vision problems. I do recall some links being emboldened (madman's for instance), and those always stand out.
Anyway, definitely not suggesting you change anything, just explaining why I thought some links were not highlighted.
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