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Why Can't We Pick Colors?

Postby skooma » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:18 am

I just found out that pink is a designated "winner" color. We all want special prizes for winning, but is that a tradition or something? Why can't we pick (since I'm about to win so many things)? Why can't we all just pick anyway? We're already used to chaos.
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Re: Why Can't We Pick Colors?

Postby Tesseracts » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:20 am

If you suffer from antisocial personality disorder you can always change your font color to this.
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Re: Why Can't We Pick Colors?

Postby skooma » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:26 am

I want this, for regular personality disorder, whatever that is. Also this, at other times.
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Re: Why Can't We Pick Colors?

Postby Andropov4 » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:28 am

Coloured text also usually means a mod is talking in their mod voice, so I'm not certain it's a great idea to abuse that function.
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Re: Why Can't We Pick Colors?

Postby skooma » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:37 am

Aha, let me splain - I mean our username and skulls/line colors (seen rainy lately?).
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Re: Why Can't We Pick Colors?

Postby Tesseracts » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:46 am

For the record I understood what you meant, and I honestly don't know if choosing your own name colors is even an option with our software. I could try to find out, or I could wait for somebody else to answer.
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Re: Why Can't We Pick Colors?

Postby LaChaise » Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:35 am

Speaking of colors, anyone knows why Meatpuppet's handle isn't bold? She's the only one I've noticed and I've been wondering for a couple days.

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Re: Why Can't We Pick Colors?

Postby Dr. Ambiguous » Mon Aug 03, 2015 8:39 am

Coloured usernames equate to something, so it's easy to tell who/what a person is by a glance at their username. Mods are blue, admins are red, backend admins are orange, new users are yellow, regular users are black, pink is for champions (winners of... things). Pink is something we've used a few times in the past, and it's always been only a temporary thing anyway. The criteria for it unfortunately isn't well established, and it's used much less often than before, (personally, I'd rather do away with it). Allowing users to pick their own usernames prevents people from being able to tell at a glance what a person is, and that's something that has benefit to it.

Coloured text is mostly used for mods speaking in mod voice, it's sometimes used for forum games, or other things. It's fine to use coloured text in regular posts, just don't go over board with it. It is however against the rules to use coloured text to pretend to be a mod, or imply that you have mod authority.

MeatPuppet's name isn't bolded because her default group is set to Editorial Rabble, which no-one remembered to set to bold. It's basically an oversight thing, that will maybe be fixed if we yell at the admins long enough, or bribe avi with a steak.
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Re: Why Can't We Pick Colors?

Postby sunglasses » Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:58 pm

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Re: Why Can't We Pick Colors?

Postby iMURDAu » Mon Aug 03, 2015 1:28 pm

I'd still pick black.
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Re: Why Can't We Pick Colors?

Postby Tesseracts » Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:19 pm

It's only possible for people to pick their own name colors if we create more user groups. I don't really think it's the best idea, I think it's good to be able to tell at a glance if someone is a mod or admin.

Meat's name was fixed.
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Re: Why Can't We Pick Colors?

Postby CarrieVS » Tue Aug 04, 2015 3:53 pm

Tesseracts wrote:Meat's name was fixed.


Oooh, Editorial Rabble get green names now? But if I set that as default I'll lose my phaser icon. I can't deciiiiide.
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