Font size used in discussions is too small

I don't know how other people think about it, but I find the default font size when reading and writing discussion extremely small. 10 point is totally insane for the high resolution displays of modern computer screens. For instance, the editor window when using a standard 1900 x 1200 resolution fits 250 characters in a line. Unfortunately this cannot be changed in the browser preferences without affecting other font sizes and thereby screwing up the page layout. I can use CMD-+/- to zooming in and out, but its just annoying.
The current font size is difficult and tiring to work with for no good reason. It is easy for the browser to read the current screen resolution. Why can the font not simply be change to something more suitable?

Perhaps an option to set the default font for discussion threads in the user preferences would be the best idea. One would think however that the Jive developers would have come up with something like that already.
For what it's worth:
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size
Do not specify the font-size in pt, or other absolute length units for screen stylesheets. They render inconsistently across platforms and can't be resized by the User Agent (e.g browser). Keep the usage of such units for styling on media with fixed and known physical properties (e.g print).
Once again, I wonder about Jive development. Anyway, 10 pt is not best practice. It's standard for printed media, but not for screens. A search in Google shows that most recommend 16 pixels or more. Not sure what this is in points. I think 10 points is about 12 pixels, depending on screen dpi/ppi. I cannot imagine how tiny 10 pt must look on any of the high resolution Retina displays, which have twice or more density than conventional 72 dpi.

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