- prometheus25
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- Exalted Mythic Member
Old school Bungie, born and raised,
In the Septagon is where I spend most of my days.
Relaxin', maxin', posting all cool,
Talking about Halo, life and some school.
Got in one little argument, and the mods got scared,
they said "You're gonna get banned and your member title'll be bare!"
Posted by: x Foman123 x
Posted by: elmicker
Alright then, as an alternative to the use of alternate accounts, how about simply turning off the coloured text of the moderators, and turning it back on when they actually moderate something?
For example, all the moderator posts in this thread would be in the normal bland grey text, admittedly accompanied by the "Forum Moderator" title and a custom avatar, but not as blatantly obvious as it is now with their salmon text. Then, for example, if they lock a thread or post a warning, they can post in their shiny glowing text to make it clear that that post was made in an official capacity. I suppose my aim with these 2 suggestions has been to reintegrate moderators as community members, rather than as they are now, seperate and slightly above (maybe not in their eyes, but you only have to stroll through the h3 forum or the flood to see it). I've seen this pulled off very well in a couple of communities, but obviously none of them as large as here, so again i imagine there's some problems with it that i'm too hungry to consider right now. I'll probably post on this again after you lot have picked my idea apart (again :P).I like this idea and the purpose behind it! I am the first to admit that I don't know anything about whether it is feasible or whether the moderators would want something like this, but I'm all-for anything that allows the mods to post their own thoughts and opinions more often without fear of repercussions.
One thing being a Compund Intelligence moderator (Thanks, Fo) has taught me is the annoyance of the current "lock topic" button. Moderators are forced to post normally and then lcok threads within the thread itself.
Perhaps it would be a better idea for mods to select a box within the reply page, locking a thread immediately after their post is up.
I feel this would help elmicker's idea, as the dependency of their text color would lie on the box to be checked. If checked, text shows salmon; if not, grey.
Same effect, easier implementation on the Web Team's behalf, I think.