No color for posts?

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

Usually with posting on vB forums, phpBB forums, IPB forums and numerous others, you can do [color=red]red[/color] [color=blue]blue[/color] and so forth.

Is there a reason this is disabled?

chris_nin00

chris_nin00

Dun dun dun

Join Date: Aug 2005

Reddit Guild

R/

A good reason would be to keep the forums less cluttered and more orderly. Signatures were also disregarded not because of bandwidth usage but because of the statement I said earlier. I really don't want to sift through colors and signatures to get to the real meat of the debate/topic/discussion. It just makes it messy.

Clean clean clean

But don't rely on my word. Wait for an admin.

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

The main reason I am asking is because I noticed recently when I made a post to help a fellow forum member.

It's a post found here under the Tech Spot - format thread.

My HijackThis Converter uses blue and red colors to show headings and to show which items are malicious.

An example can be seen here on my Lunarsoft.net forums.

Hopefully there may be some way for colors to be re-enabled?

Inde

Site Contributor

Join Date: Dec 2004

Tarun,

In a case like that I would welcome colors. The problem is that once something like this is implemented it becomes offensive. People like to 'distinguish' themselves and this would be result in posts now being red, blue, yellow, brown, grey, in order to make a point. It's just not something we'll be bringing back.

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

Is there any chance to make it a special feature such as for certain moderators? I know IPB can allow moderators only (or special groups) to have HTML (which would work for color too)

Lasareth

Lasareth

Aquarius

Join Date: Jun 2005

Somewhere between Boardwalk and Park Place

Well, so far highlight is doing a pretty good job at getting attention, so we're content with that. It gives a bit of uniformity that helps convey the message

Tarun

Tarun

Technician's Corner Moderator

Join Date: Jan 2006

The TARDIS

http://www.lunarsoft.net/ http://forums.lunarsoft.net/

I hope that something might be possible to allow color, even if just in that forum.

If not, I'll have to edit the Converter output to remove all "[color=red]blah[/color]" or replace that with the highlight; though I don't know what to do about the blue text. Aah dilemmas! :P