[Black Wolf]

This. Actually, the whole post. Stargate was awesome, Universe was probably my favourite show on TV ATM.

Don't think burlywood is going to be much of a go with the new forum theme. 

New theme is only temporary. Once black BGs return, all will be well in the world, and my posts will be readable again.

[Fury]

This. Actually, the whole post. Stargate was awesome, Universe was probably my favourite show on TV ATM.

Don't think burlywood is going to be much of a go with the new forum theme. 

New theme is only temporary. Once black BGs return, all will be well in the world, and my posts will be readable again.

Personally I wish people would stop abusing colors, you, BengalTiger and everyone else included. Colors are supposed to emphasize and supplement contents of posts, not abused by using them in every goddammned post.

In the past I even considered disabling all color tags altogether until people stop abusing them and enable them again once point has gotten through so that they can be used sensibly.

[TopAce]

What prevented you from doing so? Did the other admins oppose it?

[Black Wolf]

This. Actually, the whole post. Stargate was awesome, Universe was probably my favourite show on TV ATM.

Don't think burlywood is going to be much of a go with the new forum theme. 

New theme is only temporary. Once black BGs return, all will be well in the world, and my posts will be readable again.

Personally I wish people would stop abusing colors, you, BengalTiger and everyone else included. Colors are supposed to emphasize and supplement contents of posts, not abused by using them in every goddammned post.

In the past I even considered disabling all color tags altogether until people stop abusing them and enable them again once point has gotten through so that they can be used sensibly.

Alas, I've been doing it far too long to stop now.

[Fury]

What prevented you from doing so? Did the other admins oppose it?

I didn't propose it because I thought it would harm those release topics, such as mediavps too much. But since 3.6.12 release topic uses far less colors than the old one...

[Jeff Vader]

I didn't propose it because I thought it would harm those release topics, such as mediavps too much. But since 3.6.12 release topic uses far less colors than the old one...

Some support topics also use colours. But one could easily modify them to use bold and italics instead.

[Fury]

Actually, since karajorma said he wanted to do this because of default SMF forum theme being used currently, I disabled all color tags. I can only hope this will stay even after HLP theme is back until people stop abusing colors.

[Black Wolf]

Well that was pretty douchebagish wasn't it?

Let me confirm that, even if the colour ban does last after the old theme returns, I'll be going back to burlywood as soon as I'm able. If people don't like it, they're free to put me on their ignore lists.

[Hades]

Well that was pretty douchebagish wasn't it?

Let me confirm that, even if the colour ban does last after the old theme returns, I'll be going back to burlywood as soon as I'm able. If people don't like it, they're free to put me on their ignore lists.

The topic change was pretty immature.

[Unknown Target]

If people want to color their posts it's their right. I see no reason to ban the use of colors.

[Black Wolf]

The topic change was pretty immature.

I rarely pretend to be anything but...

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Colors are supposed to emphasize and supplement contents of posts

Like how they are used in the mediavps release threads?

[Fury]

Well that was pretty douchebagish wasn't it?

Says someone who wants to inconvenience everyone else because his posts are almost unreadable in current forum theme. Even Mobius stopped using colors in his posts, you could have followed the suit out of courtesy. I got tired of highlighting your posts to read them.

I would've been fine if it had been decided to restore color tags after new HLP theme is done. After all your posts are at least readable then, unlike now. However, you just made your own case worse by this immature topic rename.

Like how they are used in the mediavps release threads?

Exactly. Which is why color tags will make a return after HLP theme is done. But how soon is the question. Until then, at least posts should be readable without highlighting them all the time.

[Unknown Target]

All three of you (Hades, Black Wolf, Fury), should take a minute and calm down.

Black Wolf, your posts are hard to read.

Fury, if that bothers you so much, then just ignore his posts.

Hades, stop fanning the flames.

I don't see how this went from Fury being unable to read Black Wolf's posts to a forum-wide color ban.

[General Battuta]

Thread renamed.

The color thing has always kind of bugged me too. It's basically an 'I'm special!' badge. Organizing mass ignorelisting may be the way to go if it gets too severe. HLP has always been admirable because it's enforced content-over-clutter; no image sigs, no avatars. No colors should go with it.

[Fury]

I don't see how this went from Fury being unable to read Black Wolf's posts to a forum-wide color ban.

Simply because it is the easiest solution to read color abused posts until HLP theme is back. A lot of posts uses colors on the assumption that forum theme is dark, few of those actually can be useful in content. Like I said earlier, color tags will be enabled when we're back to HLP theme. Until that happens this ensures that all posts are readable in current forum theme without highlighting.

The fact that substantial number of posts are currently (or were as it is) very hard to read is separate issue from the fact that I dislike BW, Mobius and anyone else abusing color tags.

[karajorma]

Fury, if that bothers you so much, then just ignore his posts.

While that might work for normal members, telling an admin or global mod (Fury is somewhere between the two) that they should ignore members is basically giving that member carte blanche to act like a dick as long as they never do anything bad enough to get reported for it.

Secondly if you're posting in a colour that makes it hard for others to read your opinions then you've basically failed at communicating. It's like deliberately talking in a fake OTT Scottish brogue the whole time.

[Unknown Target]

Fury, if that bothers you so much, then just ignore his posts.

While that might work for normal members, telling an admin or global mod (Fury is somewhere between the two) that they should ignore members is basically giving that member carte blanche to act like a dick as long as they never do anything bad enough to get reported for it.

Secondly if you're posting in a colour that makes it hard for others to read your opinions then you've basically failed at communicating. It's like deliberately talking in a fake OTT Scottish brogue the whole time.

Well, you can probably tell if the member's acting like a dick by reading the posts replying to him. That, and like you said - if you make it hard for others to read your posts, you've failed at communicating. It sounds like an evolutionary thing to me. If no one reads his posts then maybe he'll change his colors. If he doesn't then everyone will continue ignoring his replies. Sounds like a self-correcting system to me.

[General Battuta]

If no one reads his posts then maybe he'll change his colors. If he doesn't then everyone will continue ignoring his replies. Sounds like a self-correcting system to me.

he won't, they won't, and it isn't

[TopAce]

It doesn't disturb me, but if there are some who find it distracting, it's better to disable them.

I've never had a problem reading BW's or BendalTiger's posts by the way, so I'm rather indifferent about the issue. Since Mobius stopped using his light blue, I haven't had to highlight anyone's posts to read it.

If no one reads his posts then maybe he'll change his colors. If he doesn't then everyone will continue ignoring his replies. Sounds like a self-correcting system to me.

he won't, they won't, and it isn't

And how does he know if he's being ignored? If he doesn't, then the system is not self-correcting in pragmatic terms.