Colour tags

Moriarty

Ahoi.

Could we get colour tags disabled.. even if only for specific forums?

People have taken a fondness to defining specifically black text in their posts lately which are unreadable on the cloud skin without highlighting

Sherifu

This was also brought up last month - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055250465
Gave my view on it there. Forum specific could be a good idea.

Rb

Not a bad idea alright.

leninbenjamin

+1. pink and yellow font is really irritating to read.

xebec

+1 from me too. I use the Evil skin and get frustrated by this...

RoundyMooney

I must concur (again).

If posts outside my fora are rendered in black font (on Cloud), I just ignore them.

A pointless exercise when more or less everyone else here uses the standard font...

Talliesin

The sole reason for using coloured text is to make your posts harder to read because you have nothing to say but enjoy irritating people. Anyone using them can be safely ignored.

Black though could be chosen accidentally.

Just getting rid of it entirely would be the easiest solution.

Rb

Talliesin wrote: »

The sole reason for using coloured text is to make your posts harder to read because you have nothing to say but enjoy irritating people. Anyone using them can be safely ignored.

Black though could be chosen accidentally.

Just getting rid of it entirely would be the easiest solution.

Getting rid of black only or colour posting as a whole?

Karl Hungus

Look how irritating it is!

Do away with it tbh.

Hagar

In my experience people posting in black are not doing so on purpose. It seems to happen when cutting and pasting from other forums/sites. I've unwittingly done it myself and only knew I had done so when it was pointed out to me by another poster. It seemed perfect in the style that I use.

Moriarty

Ignoring it isn't an option when you mod the forum ;_;

faceman

We all live in a yellow submarine

The traffic lights were red

the sky is blue

The grass is green

I never even noticed it before!

Sherifu

Moriarty wrote: »

Ignoring it isn't an option when you mod the forum ;_;

There's always [ctrl] + a as a quick solution to read it.

Hagar wrote: »

In my experience people posting in black are not doing so on purpose. It seems to happen when cutting and pasting from other forums/sites. I've unwittingly done it myself and only knew I had done so when it was pointed out to me by another poster. It seemed perfect in the style that I use.

I remember giving out to a poster for changing the colour and they had no idea what I was on about. A lot of it is copy & paste like you say. Sometimes it's on purpose. Where's that girl that was posting all her posts in pink? :pac:

Talliesin

rb_ie wrote: »

Getting rid of black only or colour posting as a whole?

All of it.

Getting rid of just black would stop the accidental use, but since there's no point in deliberate use except as a way to be a spanner, why leave it in?

The Artist

yeah i suppose it would be a good idea only for the very bright colours as they must be (colour blindness)members on this site,im one for starters,now way i can see bright yellow!

Rb

Talliesin wrote: »

All of it.

Getting rid of just black would stop the accidental use, but since there's no point in deliberate use except as a way to be a spanner, why leave it in?

It would cause some problems though.

For instance, the poker forum Hand History&Theory subforum is filled with threads with poker hand histories. These are converted from raw output from poker clients, and the converters always use certain formatting such as using bold & black to highlight certain parts of the output.

I'd say if possible just remove it from whatever fora don't need it, though some will.

The Artist

Karl Hungus wrote: »

Look how irritating it is!

Do away with it tbh.

i cant read that yellow karl!

seamus

+1 for disabling text colouration. It's needless.

The black problem I'm guessing comes from the enhanced editor which doesn't show you the markup - it tries to present your post in a WYSIWYG format, so people don't know if/when the editor adds in [noparse][color][/color][/noparse] tags.