What I get for not previewing:
I meant a “note” not a warning.
With all due respect, I would say it’s because you simply haven’t been paying attention. As has been said, this is nothing new. I’ve told posters in the past to stop posting in weird fonts and colors when it was becoming distracting.
Wow. I love you, too. What a wonderful welcome I’ve received here.
And before I continue, for all of you who are on the verge of lynching me because of my choice to use green font, please note my consideration towards your annoyance by my kindly using black font for your benefit.
As I stated last night in the thread that I created, my choice to use green font is more than just a choice, it is a HABIT that I picked up years ago when I first began conversing on online forums. It just stuck and I’ve used it ever since. There was no reason behind it but the fact that I simply enjoy writing in green font. By no means is it to ‘get attention’. …Really, guys? …I’m not saying y’all have never experienced a poster who proved super obnoxious by constantly switching up their font and color all the time, and I can see where that might be annoying, but seeing as though I’m clearly a newbie, it would have been kinder for a Mod or concerned member to privately come to me and ask that I refrain from using green font in deference to members who have trouble reading font color that isn’t black. That would have simplified this whole thing, and you know why? Because I’m actually a very nice person and would have been okay to go along with such a request.
But now I’M the annoyed one. And rightly so. …Y’all have completely made me out as some stupid, inconsiderate, empty-headed ‘young person’ who is craving for attention and aims to get that attention by writing in green font for everyone to notice. I can assure you that that is not what I want. I just came from a forum that I’ve been a well known and active member of for 10 years and where people are free to use whatever font and color they wish, and most people do…and shockingly nobody ever had a problem with that. And I’m talking about a large and diverse group of people of all ages, not just young people. I also, in all of those 10 years of being a member, was not ONCE given any sort of warning about anything…and then I come here and three days later I’ve unwittingly created an uproar over my green font. #toughcrowd
As much as it pains me to suffice the grievances of those who are merely ‘annoyed’ by my usage of green font, I’ll be happy to refrain from using it from now on. Never did I think my ‘coloring outside the lines’ would cause such a stir. Sorry, but uh…I’m a ‘colors outside the lines’ kind of girl, so where I may be happy to abide your quirk about the green font, I may not be so willing on other things that are just as stupid and unimportant as the green font, because where I am a nice person, I also don’t like being pushed around. So choose your battles wisely, folks.
Hey now, what an ice breaker this was. Good talk.
It’s so standard that I was pretty sure it was in the rules. Like someone saying “don’t go overboard with it” when describing the features.
That’s great and good on your old message board, but even the briefest look around here will show that it’s not something we do. You can be an individual, but you also have to adhere to community standards.
Whether you mean to or not, your posts heavily stand out here and are distracting. On this other message board, it sounds like you are much less distracting. You’re not really “coloring outside the lines” when you’re doing the same thing everyone else is doing.
You can’t just barge into a new community and assume you can continue acting the same way you did in a previous community. You have to pay attention and try to fit in to some extent.
Finally, this thread is not really about you. This is ATMB, where people discuss the rules. You have been brought up only because you happened to be the one who broke the unwritten rule.
IF you want to see the thread about you, that’s in another forum called “The BBQ Pit.” And there you can be as indignant as you like.
It’s not that your green font annoyed me, it’s that I can not see it. Well, OK, if I spend time adjusting my monitor settings, or copy and paste your post into something else so I can change the color… 10% of the population at large has that problem with the font you used.
The following so you get an idea of what reading your posts is like for me. If you can’t read it then mouse over to highlight it.
Your green font results in a low-contrast situation for me which is very difficult to read. This should give you some idea of the problem.
Is that how you want to come across to one person in ten?
For an occasional post that’s one thing, but for every single post you make? Were you even aware of the problem?
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Colored fonts suck
No. Obviously I wouldn’t have continued to use it if I knew it was so difficult to read for everyone else. It doesn’t show up like that on my own computer screen, so I had no idea.
Hence why I stated that all of this would have been resolved more quickly had someone just sent me a PM and asked that I refrain from that font color and why. I would have understood and happily obliged.
But no. You all decided to be d-bags about it.
Well, I did not know that you could get a mod note for using a different font than the default. Sorry if I gave bad advice.
Then why do we have them?
It’s been 16 years and we have a long standing history and community standard of NOT using hashtags. Must be a rule around here somewhere about those. If not, I’m sure we can come up with something.
REPORTED!!!
Precisely. If everyone is going to be so thin-skinned about the issue of fonts and colors, then the option for different fonts and colors should be removed. It’s really as simple as that.
Lol. I’m still new and don’t know you, so I’m going to cautiously assume you’re joking and just being nice to me. …Anyway, I very, very seldom hashtag. Not even on Facebook. I’m actually pretty old school for being 25.
I know I have no right to ask this, but I beseech you, please— before doing anything rash like leaving— consider giving us another chance. Years from now, we may all look back and laugh at this incident. Maybe even sooner.
It isn’t that hard to read for everyone else. How you see it is how many people would see it. But how Broomstick shows it is how it would appear to someone with certain forms of color blindness.
If colored fonts, or font styles make it hard to read, then simply go to your browser and set it so you only see what you choose, both color, font and font size.
Problem solved.
Seriously, I can’t stand fancy fonts, big or little text, or colors. I have it set so that I choose the font and color and size.
I laughed last night. But now it’s today, the issue has soured, and I’m no longer laughing. So no, I won’t laugh at this one. But yes, I can let it go and move on, and I’m more than willing to give y’all another chance.
It’s been a very long time, years even, since I’ve had the experience of breaking in a new forum and trying to fit in. I forgot how hard it is, and just how easy it is for people to jump all over you over the tiniest thing. I can handle the jerks, I guess I just wasn’t prepared to be pounced on over my mistake of using green font.
I’m seriously having a hard time understanding why so many people, mods included, even care what color or font someone else chooses to use. And I’m having a hard time understanding why it’s Miss S’s duty to keep those others font-happy and color-happy. Look, I can hear all the music my next door neighbor plays. Maybe I could ask the manager to ask her to turn it down. But if I don’t like listening to her preferred genre, does anyone think I would have any recourse other than to quietly fume about it?
Okay, I get Broomstick’s complaint that some people really have a hard time reading it. But even Miss S herself says she never thought of that, and would have been happy to switch to regular black text if someone had politely asked her. That isn’t what’s happened here.
I think we’ve got a case of mis-placed annoyance here. Her posts have mostly come across as confrontational and combative, yet the Good People of this board are ragging her less for that and more just for her choice of color and font.
I don’t like the tone of Miss S’s posts much either, mostly. But I also don’t like the uber-conformist streak on the board over such petty stuff as font or color choice. Do the people of this board also fuss IRL about the clothing choices that your classmates or workmates wear (HR toadies excepted of course)? I thought this board had a more enlightened membership than this.
Sorry, everybody. I’m sympathetic to Miss S on this. I agree with what she wrote in her lengthy riposte above, and I think she’s right to have the pissed-off attitude she displays over her warm reception here.
And the same goes for everyone who has nothing better to do than fuss over Shodan’s sign-offs. Do you guys nit-pick like that IRL too?
I get that. But I wasn’t thinking of that last night and when I first joined. Again, for the one millionth time it seems, it’s a old habit and old habits die hard. And using green font on every other forum I’ve been a member of has never been a problem…until now.
Like I’ve said, it would have been nice if Broomstick or someone else with a legit eye problem could have PMd me and said 'Yo, I have eye problems, could you refrain from the green font?" …I would have happily obliged. Communication, folks. You got to communicate…
Reading a lot of text where the color and/or the font changes randomly is difficult. Your eyes have to adjust each time it changes. Maybe it doesn’t happen to you, but it does to most people. It’s a very standard rule in publishing that you should use uniform colors and fonts, and that rule exists for a reason.
If Miss S wants to stand out from the crowd with her “controversial posts,” more power to her. Complaining about the colors had nothing to do with forcing conformity. It had to do with her posts being more difficult to read. Her “deal with it lol” responses when people asked her to stop are what ramped up the vitriol more than her original color choice.