Stresses

[malim-praedari.livejournal.com]

This exchange has made me wonder: do the students of Russian on this community find stress marks in the examples that we native speakers give helpful? What if it's a discussion at an advanced level, where all the participants presumably already know Russian well enough to figure out the stresses? My take is, beginner and intermediate students may be reading those, too, so the stress marks could still be handy. Frankly, I don't see much of a downside to putting them everywhere. I'd like to know your opinion, though.

Also, do you find one style of marking the stresses more "user-friendly" than others (e.g., Upper cAse, or apo'strophe, or diacrítics)?