RE: Do you have the right to be an atheist?
July 1, 2015 at 8:24 pm
(This post was last modified: July 1, 2015 at 8:35 pm by bennyboy.)
Okay, guys, since the most interesting things to happen in this thread have been (at least in my opinion), Redbeard The Pink's use of a pink font, and my ultra-rabid response to that font, then let me say a couple things about that. If anyone's sincerely still interested in the OP, then don't worry-- this is the last I have to say about it.
1) I apologize unconditionally to Redbeard and the forum members who admonished me. My tone was unnecessarily belligerent, and more than a little rude, not only to Redbeard himself but also to anyone else who had the misfortune of reading my post. I'm very sorry. I think a PM to him, or to a mod about post-formatting rules, would have been better.
2) I still want to talk about it, because there's a discrepancy that seems a little strange to me. Why is one man's annoying use of all-caps admonished, while another guy's attempt to draw attention using unusually-colored fonrts considered an expression of self, to be embraced and encouraged? This seems a double-standard. If a guy called himself "Hatboy the All-caps man" would he then be fine writing all posts in all-caps? If not, what's the difference?
Due to vision/neurological problems, and possibly compounded by graphical/internet settings, Redbeard's post actually caused me physical discomfort that's hard to explain-- it's something like the whistling audio artefacts you hear when a lot of people are screaming at the same time. If there is a filter to block all bright text, or a way to force all fonts on the forum to display in black, or a feature to block individual users' posts from displaying, I would like to know, so that I can avoid having to squint and get headaches while I attempt to avoid Redbeard's posts in the future. I know that many forums have the latter, but I can't seem to find the setting. Better would be some kind of theme setting, because looking back, it looks like Redbeard's comments were among the most lucid in this spaghetti-forsaken thread: if I had some control over the display of the forum, he could go on being his pink little self, and I could read his comments without jabbing steak knives into my eyes.
Okay, I'm sorry for flogging this dead horse, but I wanted to put words to the sincere reaction I had to RB's first post. It was definitely rude and hysterical, but at least you guys now know why it was that I responded rudely and hysterically.
1) I apologize unconditionally to Redbeard and the forum members who admonished me. My tone was unnecessarily belligerent, and more than a little rude, not only to Redbeard himself but also to anyone else who had the misfortune of reading my post. I'm very sorry. I think a PM to him, or to a mod about post-formatting rules, would have been better.
2) I still want to talk about it, because there's a discrepancy that seems a little strange to me. Why is one man's annoying use of all-caps admonished, while another guy's attempt to draw attention using unusually-colored fonrts considered an expression of self, to be embraced and encouraged? This seems a double-standard. If a guy called himself "Hatboy the All-caps man" would he then be fine writing all posts in all-caps? If not, what's the difference?
Due to vision/neurological problems, and possibly compounded by graphical/internet settings, Redbeard's post actually caused me physical discomfort that's hard to explain-- it's something like the whistling audio artefacts you hear when a lot of people are screaming at the same time. If there is a filter to block all bright text, or a way to force all fonts on the forum to display in black, or a feature to block individual users' posts from displaying, I would like to know, so that I can avoid having to squint and get headaches while I attempt to avoid Redbeard's posts in the future. I know that many forums have the latter, but I can't seem to find the setting. Better would be some kind of theme setting, because looking back, it looks like Redbeard's comments were among the most lucid in this spaghetti-forsaken thread: if I had some control over the display of the forum, he could go on being his pink little self, and I could read his comments without jabbing steak knives into my eyes.
Okay, I'm sorry for flogging this dead horse, but I wanted to put words to the sincere reaction I had to RB's first post. It was definitely rude and hysterical, but at least you guys now know why it was that I responded rudely and hysterically.
