Do you have the right to be an atheist?

[rexbeccarox]

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.  

What post formatting rules?  We don't have any regarding font or color; the only one we have, really, isn't even a rule, but a suggestion about quoting large walls of text.

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?

We don't have rules about posting in all caps, either.  If people are admonished for it, it's only because they've annoyed someone. We don't take any  official action.

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.

I'm sorry about your problems, but if they're that bad, you probably shouldn't be on a computer at all. I don't know of any settings in which you can change your display here.  If it's that bad, you could put our pink friend on ignore, if you wanted to.

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.

I guess... if being mean is sincere for you.  Also, it's not your place to tell people how they can and can't post.