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RE: 1. formatting; 2. choice of subsection
July 7, 2015 at 9:41 am
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RE: 1. formatting; 2. choice of subsection
July 7, 2015 at 3:42 pm
I personally don't see an issue with requiring members to use hide tags for .gifs that might provoke epilepsy. I'd never thought about that, but that's only because I don't suffer seizures.
Surely sure an addition to the rules along these lines would be appropriate:
"Given the link between flashing images and epilepsy, such images should be placed behind "hide" tags with a note why."
Who would be put out by such a rule?
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RE: 1. formatting; 2. choice of subsection
July 7, 2015 at 4:15 pm
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.
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RE: 1. formatting; 2. choice of subsection
July 7, 2015 at 6:15 pm
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2015 at 6:29 pm by bennyboy.)
@Cthulu Dreaming
Yeah, I like the idea a lot, and I think I'll write a few scripts and a little tutorial on how to use them, and open it to requests. I can think of a few neat things that you wouldn't want to go through the effort of adding to the core code:
-putting all images in hide blocks so the boss can't see what you're up to.
-stripping special formatting
-better quote handling when you're chopping a text wall
All this stuff should be doable with pure javascript.
