# Mods, when moderating, could you please post in black and white? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 6, 2019, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460 "2019-12-06T09:34:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/41 "2019-12-06T19:50:06Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > [Demonstrating] > I think this would be better for a color-blind individual, otherwise they’d miss the tags as well. Then they can highlight for better contrast. > > [/Demonstrating]\*\* > [@Miller](#): > > Pretty sure that still doesn’t work for **Spoons**. Umm, then perhaps this? [Demonstrating II] [MOD NOTE:]It still gives a red clue to the majority of readers and still has the mod info for those who would have been in the same boat had there been no color changes at all. [/Demonstrating II] ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/42 "2019-12-06T20:19:41Z")
How about alternating colors? ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/43 "2019-12-06T20:36:08Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Heh, I was getting ready to make a thread thanking the mods who have moved to posting in red. Great minds think alike. In the greater scheme of things I think the good far outweighs the bad on this one. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/44 "2019-12-06T21:33:21Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Underlining (as suggested above) or posting in a different/larger font might do the trick. I’d notice bold, larger, and in a dark-but-not-black color (like burgundy instead of red?)… But if I get \*\*a mod note in pink Comic Sans \*\*… I’m going out my way to not notice it. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/45 "2019-12-06T21:40:28Z")
I wonder if **this** would work. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/46 "2019-12-06T22:16:28Z")
I remember AOL having a font for e-mails back in the day where all the letters were made of bones. If they had some skull-like mark for the end of sentences ------- ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/47 "2019-12-06T23:36:56Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Are there any colorblind-friendly themes? Part of the problem is that there is more than one form of color deficiency. There is no one scheme that works for _all_ of them. Which makes me wonder about colorblindness on this forum. Think I might do a poll in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/48 "2019-12-07T00:56:52Z")
Some great comments and suggestions here. Thanks, all! > [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > \*\*[Demonstrating] > > I think this would be better for a color-blind individual, otherwise they’d miss the tags as well. Then they can highlight for better contrast. > > [/Demonstrating]\*\* A number of people have suggested highlighting the red text, and if the consensus is that mod instructions should be in red, then I think **Johnny** put it best: [Mod instruction] in black, followed by red text, followed by [/Mod instruction]. That way, I can find the red text, highlight it, and read it as white on blue. Thanks again, folks. Highlighting the text works well for me. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/49 "2019-12-07T01:43:04Z")
> [@D\_Anconia](#): > > There is simply no way to accommodate everyone, every time. Except for me, oddly enough. I’m not sure exactly why, nor am I complaining. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/50 "2019-12-07T04:09:29Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > How many of us are actually using the red color? I know ECG does it. Is anyone else? I have not and I wasn’t planning to. Lately I’ve been on the site 90% of the time while on my phone. It’s not very conducive to doing anything fancy with colors or fonts especially with the mobile skin. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/51 "2019-12-07T05:03:29Z")
The red is a excellent idea, thanks. I dont know anyone who cant\* see\* red, it just looks the same as green, both are grey. I suspect it might be harder to see, but maybe mouse over? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/52 "2019-12-07T05:27:23Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I have not and I wasn’t planning to. Lately I’ve been on the site 90% of the time while on my phone. It’s not very conducive to doing anything fancy with colors or fonts especially with the mobile skin. Yeah, boy. That’s the God’s honest truth. Moderating on phones is a chore in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/53 "2019-12-07T08:18:55Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > I dont know anyone who cant\* see\* red, it just looks the same as green, both are grey. That’s what I see–grey–but it is such a light grey that I struggle to see it on a white background. Like I said above, I can highlight it, and read white-on-blue. That works for me; I can read that. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/54 "2019-12-07T08:50:16Z")
> [@HMS\_Irruncible](#): > > It would also eliminate any colors that they aren’t blind to, on their entire monitor. Not really a good idea. I was only meaning for this board, where colours don’t really matter. Hell, there’s browser plugins that would make the site,and only this site, entirely B&W, never mind greyscale. ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/55 "2019-12-08T17:15:09Z")
Red text triggers me. So do the words “moderating” and “warning.” Since the SDMB doesn’t provide a safe forum, my doctor says you can’t moderate me. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/56 "2019-12-08T22:21:33Z")
At least the OP will never have to worry about pink eye. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/57 "2019-12-10T07:59:05Z")
Just a thought: is there any way to set the post to white on a background of black? I mean without having to run it through a Greasemonkey script or something. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460/58 "2019-12-10T08:24:34Z")
I think we can only do font colours, not background colours, not sure if the mods have any more choice than we do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mods-when-moderating-could-you-please-post-in-black-and-white/844460.md?page=2)