# vBulletin - the good, the bad, and the ugly **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 1, 2005, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vbulletin-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/297209 "2005-04-01T10:12:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vbulletin-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/297209/21 "2005-04-04T04:57:15Z")
It’s not the server that makes “smashie” an issue; it’s that the overwhelming majority of users would scream if we had anything animated on the site. We’ve tried this a time or two, by design and by accident, and the judgment was swift and loud and not just no, but No, NO, hell no, fuck no, stop it right this minute. As for “smashie” himself, we met him at the bboy board when we were stranded in cyberspace, during the “Winter of Our Missed Content.” As big believers in copyright, we don’t have the rights to use smashie, and so we have had to limp along without him. If that changes, we’ll let you know, but if we did have him, he couldn’t move, so you probably wouldn’t love him as much just sitting around. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vbulletin-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/297209/22 "2005-04-04T16:43:51Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > What options work well will depend on your userbase. I was initially against allowing colored text, since on other Internet venues I’ve seen, users have a tendancy to post in rainbow colors, or all yellow, or the like. Indeed, many places on the Internet, that sort of nonsense is welcomed and appreciated. But it turns out that most folks here are eminently sensible about that sort of thing, so we can allow color and get the benefits of occasional use, without the annoyance of frivolous use. On your board, that may be different. Likewise for font tags, size control, smilieys and other images, and other features. Shoot. And here I was hoping I could just type {color=rainbow]to get rainbow colored text.{/color] Doing every letter individually would be such a pain. Maybe I could write a little program… 😉 Oh, and Tuba, I really liked smashie even with the animation turned off. Just in case you can get past that copyright thingy. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vbulletin-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/297209/23 "2005-04-04T17:06:18Z")
Maybe somebody could create a Dope-unique smashie. And just to add some yang to the yin, plus infuse the whole thing with a nice pop-cultie reference, we could have a “nicey” smiley. Smashie pounds you with a mallet, nicey pats you on the head. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vbulletin-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/297209/24 "2005-04-04T18:17:17Z")
I think someone did write a little program for that a while ago… Oh, wait. That was you, wasn’t it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vbulletin-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/297209.md?page=1)