My .02 worth:
We're actually doing a rules review at the moment. I see no issue with adding something to the guidelines about adding hide tags to flashy animations.
As far as colored text goes, it has, as far as I'm aware, never been a rule per se. However, good netiquette does demand not making posts intentionally aesthetically obnoxious. (I personally don't consider the current situation to fall into that category, but it's a subjective thing, yo, and YMMV). We do have an existing mechanism for handing posters who consistently bother you with their posting style: the ignore function.
As far as pursuing a programmatic solution to conditionally stripping color tags from displayed posts, I doubt we'll pursue doing so. In a vacuum, it isn't a difficult problem. However, there are some considerations that make it somewhat impractical -
1) Any changes to the core MyBB code means that we run the risk of losing those changes when even a minor update is done, and it's a certainty when a major update is done.
2) Because of 1), any such change would need to be encapsulated as a plugin, making the level of effort greater than it would otherwise be (in addition, we still run into issues with major upgrades - MyBB plugins tend to be version dependent).
3) There appears to be limited demand for the feature, and there's higher priority work to be done.
As someone else suggested, a good workaround for doing this on the client side is to install the Greasemonkey plugin and write a site-specific script to modify the page DOM/CSS to do whatever you want.
We're actually doing a rules review at the moment. I see no issue with adding something to the guidelines about adding hide tags to flashy animations.
As far as colored text goes, it has, as far as I'm aware, never been a rule per se. However, good netiquette does demand not making posts intentionally aesthetically obnoxious. (I personally don't consider the current situation to fall into that category, but it's a subjective thing, yo, and YMMV). We do have an existing mechanism for handing posters who consistently bother you with their posting style: the ignore function.
As far as pursuing a programmatic solution to conditionally stripping color tags from displayed posts, I doubt we'll pursue doing so. In a vacuum, it isn't a difficult problem. However, there are some considerations that make it somewhat impractical -
1) Any changes to the core MyBB code means that we run the risk of losing those changes when even a minor update is done, and it's a certainty when a major update is done.
2) Because of 1), any such change would need to be encapsulated as a plugin, making the level of effort greater than it would otherwise be (in addition, we still run into issues with major upgrades - MyBB plugins tend to be version dependent).
3) There appears to be limited demand for the feature, and there's higher priority work to be done.
As someone else suggested, a good workaround for doing this on the client side is to install the Greasemonkey plugin and write a site-specific script to modify the page DOM/CSS to do whatever you want.
