I think many people can be annoyed by them, but I didn’t know it wasn’t allowed. If that’s the case, perhaps TPTB could just remove the settings. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve mentioned many times in many “what annoys you” type threads that I find it obnoxious when people change up the fonts, but I wasn’t aware it was against the rules.
I just pitted someone for persistent green-colored fonts in their posts. Not sure if it was a setting that was overlooked, but the human eye responds better to black-on-white or white-on-black.
On this MB, IMO - text is paramount. We are all talking to one another here.
Via the written language.
Silly fonts and such just distract from the discussion at hand.
The board has no policy against the use of alternative colors or fonts for emphasis.
However, from its earliest days, posting in nothing but alternative colors and fonts has been considered jerkish behavior as it comes across as a cry to “Look at me!” rather than an effort to participate in the discussion. As such, it has, for the last sixteen years, been addressed through Mod instructions rather than laying down a rule over which we can wrangle.
It would be nice if some of you young’uns would show a little consideration for those of us whose vision is not what it used to be. And while you’re at it, stay off my lawn!
What would be nice, would be if you’re going to use ‘it’s not a rule, it’s a community standard’ as your reasoning, you bloody post it somewhere. Are new people just supposed to arrive here ‘knowing’?
I’ve been here 15 yrs and I had no idea. So, job NOT well done, on the whole ‘unwritten rule’ nonsense.
So we can do it for emphasis, but not to draw attention. And a post in alternative colors and fonts, by its nature, is not an effort to participate in a discussion no matter what it says. And it is not against the rules - it will just be mod noted (and eventually Warnings and bannings).
Another of those instances where the mods seem to be going out of the way to maximize trouble for themselves by being as vague and self-contradictory as they can manage.
Why are the mods so terrified of clarity? This kind of “it is but it’s not and we aren’t going to admit that it is but we are going to rule against it” does nothing whatever to reduce contention. If the idea is “we aren’t going to admit anything, so nobody can argue against it”, I would have thought you could figure out by now that this is not a good idea.
Period.
No note deserved. I hate to defend the obnoxious behavior but the note was out of line. If that behavior warrants a mod note make a rule against it. If mods can write notes for rules only they know about, how are we supposed to know what we can and can’t do?
Come to think of it, this as come up before. I think we were told that we were just supposed to do it and see what happens. I can’t find the thread right now, but it was something similar, a member asked if a word or insult or something was okay and the mods wouldn’t give them an answer, just said to try it and then they’d decide if a warning was warranted.
Also, I thought it was kind of funny that a note was written up about poster standing out from the crowd in a thread about diversity. Hey, you, back in line, stop looking so different.
It was the use of “Freeptard” and “libtard”, and was subject to the same kind of ruling. It depended on the mod, and they weren’t about to explain how to determine which mod would rule.
If you’re reading a board where every single post is the same font and colour, it’s not a huge stretch to realise that, at the very least, it’s strongly preferred that every post is the same font and colour.
That’s a current(ish) thread, right? This was about a year or so ago. I rarely, go into political threads so if it happened there I wouldn’t have known about it. Glad to see they’re doing it again. At least they’re consistent.
No, not at all. It just means that it’s the default color and most users don’t actively change the font setting each time. Besides, even if it’s strongly preferred, can you point me to the rule that says it’s required?
By your logic it’s also strongly preferred that we don’t sign off each and every single post and that we use proper grammar but I have yet to see the mods come down on johnpost or Shodan (and plenty of posters have asked Shodan to knock it off).
Or, alternatively, if you arrive at a board with a coloured font option, it’s not a huge stretch to assume you’re permitted to use them as you choose. No indication in the rules you ought not.
Strongly preferred by whom? The word police (aka politically-correct, non-mod types)? The thought-police (aka you don’t think as we do, therefore, you must be bullied into compliance)?
Is “strongly preferred” to be considered the same as a “hard and fast rule written in stone that must not be questioned”?
Of course, people are always free to establish the standards on their own privately-owned websites.
You freedom fighters are hoisting the “Don’t Mod On Me” flag over colored fonts? Really?
AFAIK, there’s no board rule against posting everything in Leet, either. Think we need to carve that one into the stone tablets while we’re at it, lest the delicate feelings of some time-traveling H4x0r be hurt by some unforeseen mod pwnage?
It’s over a new ‘community standard’, ‘unwritten rule’, suddenly appearing. Persons who’ve been here for over a decade are righteously taken aback to discover one, after all this time, that they were unaware of.