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Posted by: Duardo
How would that encourage spam? The highlighted part would only show up on their account, and no one elses. Sure, perhaps some members would make threads about how their entire screen is filled with purple (highlight color) but who really cares? It would be just the the same amount as all of the other off-topic threads. That's my two cents.
On another note, I gotta wonder why anytime someone tries to bring up an idea, it's shot down by telling them that it'll cause elitism/spam...
Posted by: Code Zero
You people are on again with the whole "spam" deal? No, it wouldn't encourage spam. We had something like this in the old layout, where threads you visited would be a different color. I just want THAT feature back because it was useful. It didn't encourage spam at all...
What I said originally was that it "might" encourage spam, and that is still quite true. I would have thought that you two know my posts well enough to know that I do not simply cry "spam" or "elitism" at every new idea. If I say that there will be a problem with one or the other, then I have legitimate reasoning to back it up. If you want to see it, just read the first post in this thread.
Duardo: You acknowledged some users might make posts about how their whole screen was filled with the highlighted color, but you forget what it would take for a user to get that to happen -- spam posting in every single thread on the front page. I find it highly doubtful that anyone could achieve that without posting something useless in at least some of those threads.
Secondly Duardo, you are wrong in your assertion that every idea is shot down on spam or elitism grounds. The vast majority of ideas that are shot down on these grounds usually have some flaw that really would encourage one or the other. If the original thread author (or anyone else) wants to defend the idea, then he or she may do so. But I could point you to at least ten different "new" ideas on the first page or two of the Septagon that do not have a single reply mentioning elitism or spam.
Code Zero: There is a major difference between what you're talking about and this idea. I would hope that it would be obvious to you that there is a huge difference between the thread author's idea and your mentioning of a thread changing color because you have visited it, regardless of whether you posted in it. The former *might* encourage some spammers to post spam in order to see if they can "get the whole page to change color." Whereas the latter simply rewards a user who is good at clicking fast.