[The E]

this looks real good.

[Colonol Dekker]

I agree. Next stop coloured username text to denote mod status?

[Luis Dias]

sigh it's like a nightmare.

[Spoon]

sigh it's like a nightmare.

You are starting to sound a tiny bit overly dramatic and ridiculous, I'll be honest.

[Luis Dias]

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[Axem]

Luis, could you be a little more specific as to what you are sighing at, or is that a sarcastic remark?

[Luis Dias]

It's like a trainwreck. When you think "ok, ok, I'm ok with avatars, they are telling me I can nuke it from settings after all... ah, that's quite generous actually", Spoon comes on with this BankGothiqued proposal. Then everyone actually likes it. Then, Dekker shows up and basically says "Oh and why not turn usernames into rainbows?" I'm kinda expecting someone to show up and propose different background colors to better distinguish dev team members, or that the text font be changed to Eurostile Bold Extended, with someone else showing up and be all "high five that's f' cool!".

[Spoon]

It's not a 'trainwreck' you dramaqueen
First off, why are you so hung up on the usage of BankGothic on a Mockup example? As I said, I don't know what font the forum uses so I just picked the Freespace 2 font. Nowhere have I suggested that the forum starts using BankGothic. I am honestly not sure if you just don't know what a mockup is, or if you misread somewhere that I suggested the font be changed to bankgothic.

Then second off, Dekker makes a suggestion. He is free to suggest whatever he feels like, be it rainbows or unicorns or pokemons. Why are you acting as if this is then a thing everyone agrees on to add? We're not on some unavoidable slippery slope riding an out of control train down into a rainbow colored super cluttered forum.

Shimmer down man!

If you have any actual complaints about my examples, let's hear it!

[Axem]

I do like number 3, but I don't think staff positions or any other text (like the user name) needs to be colored. I think staff positions like global moderator or administrator could be bolded to emphasize them a bit, but I don't think its totally necessary.

I know kara was saying something about a special project board specific wide moderator badge, but I think that Spoon's way of doing it would probably the easiest. We'd need to make so many new graphics for all the projects that would require it.

[Phantom Hoover]

I'm honestly not sure moderators/admins even need a big visible badge of authority at all, so long as you can find out who they are easily (and maybe have some reddit-style flagging of posts that are Official Proclamations)

[Axem]

I don't think we need big badges either. The small ones we have now, plus a simple text title for the staff position would be enough I think.

[Luis Dias]

I'm just happy that bankgothic isn't to be used, and yes Spoon I know *very well* what a mockup is. I just tend to do them or see them done.... to the literal pixel.

[Spoon]

Okay man, no worries. I didn't mean to belittle you or anything. I just thought it was clear that the bankgothic was literally only just there because I didn't know the forum font. And a mockup is like "here's what it could roughly look like".

[Luis Dias]

I'm realising that I'm too much of a nerd* when it comes to visual stuff.

*the nitpicking, nagging kind of

[Buff Skeleton]

[Luis Dias]

I get to have two avatars randomly placed? Why didn't you say that before?!?

(That mockup is silly good and really good fun I had a blast with it!)

[Spoon]

[snip]

[karajorma]

[snip]

I think you've just given us the idea for next year's April Fools.

[mjn.mixael]

We're not on some unavoidable slippery slope riding an out of control train down into a rainbow colored super cluttered forum.

I'd really like to see a mockup of that...

[Axem]

Here you go!