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Mourne not your comrades who must dwell / too strong to strive -
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, / Buried alive;
But rather mourne the apathetic throng / The cowed, and the meek -
Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.
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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).
Not a bad idea, but I don't think it can work. Or, at least, it would require quite a bit of work to redo the way color text works here. As it is, a member's text does not stay the same color as it was when it was posted. Such as, if you go back and look at a post that was made by, say, Gods Prophet, 2 years ago, his text will be salmon, even though he wasn't a moderator at that point. And if you look at something that a former moderator wrote, it will be have the normal member color, even if they were a mod when they wrote it. So in order for that idea to work, there would need to be a way to have text color linked to a post instead of a member.
hmm... maybe it could work though. The moderators could be given the ability to use color tags, and have the tag restricted to one color. That would require the mods to remember to use it, though. And we all know how lazy this bunch is. :\