In this thread you claimed my font size and color to be “obnoxious”, and apparently sufficiently so that an otherwise warnable offense by another poster gets a pass.
I object on multiple grounds.
Please cite the rule which prohibits the occasional use of larger fonts/colors when appropriate…such as in a football thread about the BCS Championship Game, when said font/colors have been used in multiple other threads on this very board in similar context.
Please cite the rule and/or reasoning that supports giving an otherwise warnable offense a note instead, merely because the moderator has some personal issue with the alleged provocation.
Please cite the rule that allows a moderator to reduce the font size selected by a poster on the basis of personal whimsy.
I missed the original but I know on some boards, if you go too big, it breaks the auto-wrap and fucks up the layout of all the posts. Dunno, if that happened here but it’s annoying when it does.
As someone who loathes football with every fiber of my 300-thread-count being, detests hearing and reading football cheers and slogans, finds giant red fonts irritating in general, and has at best a checkered history with Oakminster, I think that one should’ve been allowed to slide.
Yes, the moderation was rather heavy-handed and arbitrary. But your implication that the moderators are obligated to defend each of their actions by citing title, chapter and line number from the rules is equally ridiculous. In small communities, deferring to the good judgement of those in authority rather than compiling an exhaustive set of rules, limits and justifications for every possible situation is vastly more efficient.
Having a different set of rules for what’s appropriate depending on whether the reader is a peon or a moderator may be more efficient, but hardly enjoyable.
Airman Doors, USAF got a note instead of a Warning because he’s been here for a decade, has a great record and your font was pointlessly shoved into the face of everyone who read the thread. I don’t take provocation into consideration when determining whether or not something is out of line, but I do take it into account when I determine the reaction. Contrary to what you claim he was not “given a pass” - Notes are not Warnings, true, but they cut into the amount of slack we’re willing to give posters in the future.
As to your rules lawyering, give it a rest. The Rules are for big deals that will affect people’s posting privileges. This was just janitor work.
Why did I do anything to your post? It ate up 90% of the screen estate on my 10,1" tablet, which broke the formatting and I had to scroll left and right in order to read the thread. When I got home and on to my desktop it was still annoyingly large, so I reduced the font to remove the annoyance for everyone else. Something mods occasionally has to do when someone slips a twenty-paragraph post IN ALL CAPS by the caps-filter or rewrite War & Peace in neon green font. You weren’t dinged for it because I got that you weren’t trying to be a jerk, but the result was still obnoxious and thus got edited down to a reasonable level.
The BB code tools are there for appropriate use. Coloring is a good way to show different authors and edits, like sometimes done in the FAQ. Larger font sizes can be used (sparingly) to good effect in order to direct attention to vital information or create headers where Bolding is used for emphasis or sub-headers. And so on. Using all these tools appropriately is part of what constitutes good manners and common courtesy on this board. Using them as a mere look-at-me is just annoying.
I couldn’t care less if I get a warning or not, to be honest with you. I’m surprised that my post would merit one when the topic is specifically about how much hate we have for the teams and my first post viciously went after fans of said team. In that respect it was nothing more than a follow-up.
Exactly! It’s like being in the Garden of Eden and forbidden to eat all the available fruit. Surely the SDMB Divinity did not mean to put such temptations within reach of our messaging fingers.
not exactly serious about this, just trying to get my post count higher.
The exact same thing has been posted in several other threads in that very forum, with nary a peep from more reasonable mods. If you are now making up a brand new “No large fonts on the SDMB” rule, you need to publicize it, and enforce it consistently.
For the record, it looked like this.
That’s simply not true, as your post contains seven words, while the large colorful part of mine contained only two. For the true record, it looked more like:
I like Gukumatz as a poster and mod but this was heavy handed modding. I’m kind of in the Vinyl Turnip camp on this too. I’m sure I’ve seen some actual egregious mis-use of color/size fonts in the past with nary a peep from the mods.
So? You might be on a brick or a tablet or whatever but if that text takes up all your screen space that’s your problem, not his. Two words in that size is against the rules? Give me a break.
