Purple on, raisinbread. I’d be disappointed if you stopped. I’ve come to find it endearing, like a friend who always wears a silly hat or the puppy that nibbles at my toes when I take my shoes off.
Yep, me too.
I really like that we have the color , font, and size features enabled. They’re fun for occasional use, and I’m glad that most people here only use them occasionally.
The only thing I find even the slightest bit annoying abour purple is that it is also the color that my browser uses to display links. But since the links are underlined and bolded I think I can somehow bear to live with that.
I’m not certain that I have ever come across raisinbread before, but if I cdo I cannot imagine that I would give less credence to her posts based upon the colo of her text. That seems a pretty silly way to decide whether someone has something worth saying.
I’m seconding Anamorphic, 2trew, and Green Bean. I tend to skip over anything purple, or all caps, or no caps, et cetera. It’s difficult to read, and I won’t unless it’s been quoted.
raisin - I have no issue with the purple, I think it’s sweet. Maybe it makes me perceive you as younger than you are, but I think that’s more from the tone of your posts than the colour.
Anyway, just to ditto irishman on pretty much everything he said too.
And erislover - that Arial was GLORIOUS! I had no idea we could change fonts. I love Arial, it is so easy on the eye. (What is the default font here btw?) Whenever I cut and paste stuff from the web to read in Word - eg when the font size is too tiny, or doesn’t contrast with the background - I always change it all to Arial too.
Were it not for the fact that I am too lazy and forgetful, I would henceforth always post in Arial.
I disagree. Erl’s use of arial is obviously just some juvenile pun on his user acronym. I will henceforth skip over any posts from him, as he is obviously a one-trick poster with inadequate concern my migraines and eyestrain.
Wait. That would be silly. There are far better reasons to discount everything erl posts.
IMO Raisinbread doesn’t cross the “jerkiness” color line. IMO a “jerky” use of color would be the posts in alternating multiple colors, like every other word or every other letter. Those are hard to read. And you get the feeling that somebody spent a LONG time putting that together, and solely for the purpose of looking decorative. In other words, in those posts, the whole point of the post seems like it’s to say, “Hey, lookie what I can do with color coding!” And the gist of the post is completely lost.
But Raisin has always used purple, from the gitgo, and I don’t see that all her posts are “about” purple. None of them read like, “I have nothing substantive to say, but don’t it look purdy in purple.” So, she just likes purple, BFD.
I don’t find the purple that hard to read. Bottom line, it makes her happy, it’s not like wading through a Rolleyes Concerto post, it’s no skin off my nose.
And no, I don’t think we need to make an Official Straight Dope Message Board Rule about using color in posts. Don’t the moderators have enough to do without doing Color Patrol, too?
And yes, I agree with Malkavia that this is about the most inane thing I’ve ever seen people get all cranked up about, either “for” or “against”. Get lives, people. 
I have an idea. Let’s all start posting in purple! Do you think raisin would stop if we did that?
Christ. I move this to the Pit and it becomes a goddamned love-in. Fickle. You’re a fickle lot, ain’t ya?
All cranked up? If you think this is all cranked up, honey…just wait until you’ve been here a while.
From now on, I’m not going to conform to your fascist notions of “WORDS” or “GRAMMAR” or “FONTS.” Every one of my posts after this one will be a performance art piece incorporating string, raw pork, and stolen underwear. You can’t tie me down to your outdated and reactionary methods of “communication.” I don’t need meaning, I just need to have a gimmick that screams out, “Pay attention to me now! Over here! Me! I’m so different it hurts!”
I think rasinbread’s use of color is too hard to read
Hey, kewl, it’s like a Spoiler Box with no Spoiler Box!
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.
Neat!
Aw, shoot, it only works if you get a white reply post.
FWIW, I have better vision than most people here (20/15 roughly, or at least that’s what it was last time I had it checked) and I have difficulty reading raisinbread’s posts occasionally. I thought the thing would stop after a few posts, sort of a “hey I’m new I think I’ll post in purple once or twice.”
Then I saw another half-dozen or so of those purple posts. Damn annoying (to me, anyway). Harder to read, for me, and something about it strikes me as being a bit teenybopper and not in a good way. For all I know raisinbread could be a hundred and ten years old. The whole of the posts just strike me as something someone immature would do.
Color is like sex. In moderation it can be quite spectacular, but if you employ it all the time it can get quite painful.
They don’t bother me. Probably because I skip 'em. Purple only works in conjunction with engorged.
If raisin has to post in purple in order to get his/her message across, I don’t suppose I have the clout to change that. And, perhaps such color-use by raisinbread, however annoying, should be overlooked, as he/she apparently hasn’t any other avenue to manage an attention-getting or otherwise wholesomely contributing post.
Save the excessive color use for the chatroom, IMHO.
[sub]And seriously, doesn’t indigo look more like a raisin than this infamous hue anyhow? It’s a tad easier to read, too. Might you consider this, raisin?[/sub]
Raisin -> Purple. It makes sense to me. It’s not like it takes color to be annoying, right? There are enough armchair intellectuals who want to drip their langid irony all over you on the SDMB that purple barely raises an eyebrow. Raisinbread go for the purple all you want, at least he’s not obnoxious, hot tempered and arrogant like me. 
A little story about gimmick posters…
At one of the wrestling boards I frequent, we had a member who liked to post as if he was Hulk Hogan. No post was complete without a “Brother”, a “Whatcha Going to Do?” or a “Let Me Tell You Something”
At first, it was merely annoying.
Then it became irritating. No matter what he posted, it was ignored or mocked because of his gimmick. He could have posted the secrets to cold fusion, a cure for the common cold or the answer to who shot JFK, but he had driven most people away.
Personally, I’m neither thrilled nor enraged by the purple font. I can see why people find it annoying.
I kinda like this color.