Can we ban text editing?

[Bowie]

Just thought I should apologise for what I said before. I indeed misunderstood what you were trying to say. I thought you meant editing posts as a whole, not just editing the format of the text. So sorry! I agree it can be annoying when people use super bright, hard to read colours and such.

 

[yoyo98]

I don't agree with this.

It's called freedom of speech. We can use any color font we like. Sure you can get people to stop using light colored fonts, but are you okay with the staff banning threads complaining about Club Tortimer or the animal moving mechanic? They can do anything, including granting more freedom or taking part of it away.

OH MY GOD THAT COLOR

 

[jiny]

tell me if this is too bright

it is

is this better

 

[yoyo98]

Yup the second one's better.

 

[jiny]

yeah it is.

 

[MozzarellaSticks]

Just thought I should apologise for what I said before. I indeed misunderstood what you were trying to say. I thought you meant editing posts as a whole, not just editing the format of the text. So sorry! I agree it can be annoying when people use super bright, hard to read colours and such.

Read and reply to OP, not titles. I learned that the hard way, too.

- - - Post Merge - - -

tell me if this is too bright

it is

is this better

Neither. Use black.

 

[MyLifeIsCake]

As long as the color is dark and large enough for me to read with burning my eyes I don't care if you write in color.

But I also don't like when people type in huge text all the time, why?!?!

 

[Idfldnsndt]

Okay yeah but what if the post actually has something you want to read.
I can't ignore the rules of a shop or ignore the contents of the shop either.

You could. If you cant stand reading the text colour of the rules or stuff then dont bother. Go find a different shop or suck it up

 

[Zandy]

I don't think we'll see font colours banned.

Most boards including TBT use BBCode for text formatting and it's pretty standard to have various text formatting options including the ability to change the colour of fonts. Removing the text colouring feature is somewhat impractical. To remove it altogether would probably be a hassle in terms of coding and it would limit users who like to use brighter colours to jazz up threads. To remove only certain colours would be even more difficult since there are a ton of colour hex codes that would have to be extracted from use. Alternatively, a new rule could be implemented that bans certain colours and makes it a reportable offence if a user uses a colour that is too light - but that would be additional work for moderators and there would be cases on whether a font colour is too bright or not would be purely subjective.

I know sites that have options to strip all BBCode from posts (without the addition of a browser add-on) which could be useful. I don't know how easy or difficult that would be to implement on a vBulletin board like TBT though.

 

[piichinu]

lol no dont get rid of that

 

[PurpleLutari]

I'll admit that I'm not a huge fan of tiny pastel fonts either, but I very highly doubt we'll ever disable it completely. Great news though, our very own Jas0n the problem solver has a solution!

....What about firefox though? Is there something similar for it, or is that extension Chrome-only..? D:

Just get glasses if it's that hard to read. I have no problem reading any of the text, and I never have. If it's really that hard then just highlight it. If you found this then good job. c:

Okay but what about people who already have glasses? I've had 'em my whole life, I'm literally wearing them now and I still have to squint to read if it's super bright text.. x_x And tbh highlighting it annoys me bc like. The text should be readable to me in the first place? I shouldn't have to highlight a whole post just to read it, imo..