# Gukumatz, a word, please. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 3, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901 "2012-12-03T21:30:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/9 "2012-12-03T23:46:37Z")
**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. For the record, it looked like this. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901)._