- Demerzel
- |
- Senior Heroic Member
Posted by: UL7IM4 G33K
Its simple, if you don't want to see colors, make colors toggleable in the member settings. Just like you can do with displaying signatures, etc. These choices should be up to the members as to what they want to see on the forum, not the admins. Its our community, not theirs.
And yes, my metaphor works, you just looking too deeply into it, like most people here do with Halo. If you want to be afraid of giving the members power over anything, thats fine. But don't expect much to improve here if we cannot trust the members a little. I think activity, good activity, has increased since the member titles were put up. I have also become more inclined to post simply because I see more constructive talk around here. Members aren't your enemies, and some of you need to learn that.
Yes, but if we don't have the colors-in-posts function in the first place, then the problem of needing a toggle on/off option doesn't even arise. I don't intend to argue with you about this, but I will explain myself a bit more.
Again, I do not believe that this feature is necessary. We do have other methods of formatting text that allow you to draw attention to those parts of a post that you want to draw attention to.
Firstly, it is our community, but it is run by the admins. They have total say over all matters concerning bungie.net, and they have the right to total control because they developed the website and they maintain it -- they reserve the right to remove anything they like. They can gather feedback and see what people want and don't want, but they also have to test it out and make sure that it doesn't negatively impact people and that it isn't too extraneous. In this case, and as I've already mentioned, we wouldn't need a toggle option if we didn't have a color option in the first place.
Secondly, I see your point, and it is a fairly good one: you think that we're saying that some members cannot be trusted with the color option. Of course some can't -- a lot of them can't even be trusted with the words in their posts, let alone the colors of those words. It's not a question of seeing people in black and white as either "enemies" or "good members" -- it's a question of analyzing whether a new system could theoretically be abused, and how that abuse would affect the forums.
The point is that we've gotten along for several years without this feature, and I don't think it's really critical enough to warrant being redone and put back in.