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RE: Pick your own username colour
October 3, 2012 at 1:00 pm
I would want to, just so I could go out of the way to find a color nobody else is using and use that.
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RE: Pick your own username colour
October 3, 2012 at 1:22 pm
My point is, there are two ways of doing this:
1) we have a finite list of "allowed" colours you can choose from.
2) we let people choose any color, but some ranges are reserved.
The latter is harder to implement. We'd have to ban the entire red and green ranges, and I'm not even sure I'd know how to do that.
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RE: Pick your own username colour
October 3, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Maybe as a sort of compromise you could have a different colour dependent on post count as well as donators status and whatever else. That way the colours have a bit of meaning and maybe have it so people can revert to previous username colours if they like them more than there most recent one.
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RE: Pick your own username colour
October 3, 2012 at 2:29 pm
That's even more complicated that option 2, lol. :-)
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RE: Pick your own username colour
October 3, 2012 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2012 at 3:25 pm by Faith No More.)
(October 3, 2012 at 10:14 am)Rayaan Wrote: Because you're color blind? 
Yes, but also because I'm tired of the color-centric mindset of those who are privileged enough to see the full range of the spectrum a human is intednded to see. It is insulting to the colorly-challenged when insensitive ideas such as this are bandied about without any consideration for those they these ideas harm. I'm thinking about starting a new movement called "Atheism -" with frankiej. It's atheism minus all of the harmful, color-centric insensitivity that the privileged aren't even aware they propagate.
(If you're not with me you're an asshole, and a colorly-challenged bigotry supporter.)
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RE: Pick your own username colour
October 3, 2012 at 3:22 pm
And how about having each letter cycling through the colour palette, like one of those animated neon signs?
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RE: Pick your own username colour
October 3, 2012 at 4:54 pm
Maybe a different font for admins?
