RE: 1. formatting; 2. choice of subsection
July 6, 2015 at 10:19 pm
(This post was last modified: July 6, 2015 at 10:24 pm by bennyboy.)
(July 6, 2015 at 1:03 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Benny, like I said in the other thread (and I'm not trying to be mean at all, just honest): if you have problems with flash and funny colors, etc., the internet is probably not the place for you in general. My advice is to ignore a user who doesn't conform to your requirements.
It's not your place to tell me what I should/shouldn't be able to do with my free time. This is a solvable technical problem, solvable by either site programmers who can easily give better control over how the site displays (I know this for a fact as I'm personally capable of doing it), or the person who insists on using strangely-colored fonts, or by me-- since I found the "Ignore" button which you bothered to tell me how to find in that "other" thread.
In the current guy's case, who we can talk about but not name (I know the rules), the guy's a nice guy overall, and making good contributions, and clearly identifies strongly with his color of choice. I get it-- but after all that, I still feel such a persistent and excessive use of special fonts should be discouraged, ideally with a rule.
For me, the best solution would be a programming one-- a feature to force all forum text to black, or even to select your preferred font or whatever. The second best would be people not using goofy fonts because it's pointless and annoying. The third, I suppose, would be to follow your suggestion for me to fuck off, which language I would have preferred to your patronizing tone.
(July 6, 2015 at 7:02 am)Napoléon Wrote:(July 6, 2015 at 6:46 am)bennyboy Wrote: You, sir, are a nasty trickster. I know enough about the rules to know I'm not supposed to call someone out in a public complaint thread.
Quite honestly, I could have sworn the etiquette you're talking about was discouraged though, I'm sure I remember several times newbies have been advised to keep their fonts and colours to the standard that everyone else uses. There's only one exception I can think of to that, which is relatively recent.
I thought so, too. I've seen people in the past get scolded for it. Maybe the times they are a changin', or I'm just hallucinating rules of etiquette that I thought were universal to electronic communication.
