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Subject: Colored Text on Bungie.net

"I don't care if it's God's own anti-Son of a -blam!- Machine or a giant hula-hoop!"

Does anyone know what update, or roughly when Bungie.net lost the colored text ability?

I personally don't remember this feature, and clearly the Bungie web-team didn't care for it.

What colored text you might ask?

Bam! Examples!

Example 1 (Stosh)
Example 2 (Plain ol' members to the community had this ability too it seems.)

  • 07.20.2011 6:41 PM PDT

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

I think it was around late 2004.

A few users started posting only in certain colors and abusing the ability.

The user I am pretty sure who is the most to blame is CemicalPanther for posting in all pink.


I WANT COLORS BACK! WHAAAAAAAAA!

[Edited on 07.20.2011 6:45 PM PDT]

  • 07.20.2011 6:43 PM PDT
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Yeah I think it was removed due to overuse, I used to see it used back in '04 when I was lurking.

  • 07.20.2011 6:45 PM PDT

"I don't care if it's God's own anti-Son of a -blam!- Machine or a giant hula-hoop!"

Posted by: Top_Gun_2021
I think it was around late 2004.

A few users started posting only in certain colors and abusing the ability.

The user I am pretty sure who is the most to blame is CemicalPanther for posting in all pink.


I WANT COLORS BACK! WHAAAAAAAAA!

Yeah. I figured it would be abused. *Cough* The Flood *Cough*

  • 07.20.2011 6:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: squeak52
Posted by: Top_Gun_2021
I think it was around late 2004.

A few users started posting only in certain colors and abusing the ability.

The user I am pretty sure who is the most to blame is CemicalPanther for posting in all pink.


I WANT COLORS BACK! WHAAAAAAAAA!

Yeah. I figured it would be abused. *Cough* The Flood *Cough*

Well what do you expect, that's a forum full of /b/ trolls.

  • 07.20.2011 6:50 PM PDT

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.


Posted by: squeak52
Posted by: Top_Gun_2021
I think it was around late 2004.

A few users started posting only in certain colors and abusing the ability.

The user I am pretty sure who is the most to blame is CemicalPanther for posting in all pink.


I WANT COLORS BACK! WHAAAAAAAAA!

Yeah. I figured it would be abused. *Cough* The Flood *Cough*


Oh, it was great back then.

  • 07.20.2011 6:51 PM PDT

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit,
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."
-Omar Khayyám-

There is a way to get colored text...But it is a harrowing trial that would test one's mettle.

You must cut and bottle a decalitre of Shishka blood then drink said blood,followed by acting a like a total stud in your birthday suit, then watch spongebob squarepants with the tv on mute. As soon as you complete these trials three, colored text is what you will see.

  • 07.20.2011 8:33 PM PDT

It only takes a simple question to change everything.

That's pretty cool. I would hate for them to bring it back though. It seems like it would be heavily abused.

  • 07.20.2011 10:14 PM PDT
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  • 07.20.2011 10:37 PM PDT

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It would be cool to bring it back, but I do agree with all of you, it would be very heavily abused.

  • 07.20.2011 11:01 PM PDT

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I'm not sure how the hell you can "abuse" a color. Unless you're posting with the same color as the background, I can't even see how it's remotely possible to call it abuse.

I thought they changed it because they wanted Mods and Employee's to stand out more, and so that the site seemed more uniform and professional. Which makes more sense than "abuse".

  • 07.20.2011 11:07 PM PDT

I'm glad there aren't any colors anymore. These forums are a lot more professional looking than most. Especially those that use phpBB templates. Adding colors to the New Hawtness format wouldn't look quite as good as it does now. The webteam did a great job making these forums look very slick!

  • 07.20.2011 11:18 PM PDT

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  • 07.20.2011 11:49 PM PDT

Wake me, when you need me.

A long time ago. It was zapped quick.

  • 07.20.2011 11:54 PM PDT

On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll look
A corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.
Win.

phpBB-powered boards all have font colours.
They never have a problem with people spamming and abusing the colours - why is that? It's a rule. Overuse of any BB codes constitutes spam, and font colours are included in this.

  • 07.21.2011 12:18 AM PDT

On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll look
A corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.
Win.

Posted by: Salazar14
I'm glad there aren't any colors anymore. These forums are a lot more professional looking than most. Especially those that use phpBB templates. Adding colors to the New Hawtness format wouldn't look quite as good as it does now. The webteam did a great job making these forums look very slick!
The main reason it'd look like crap is because Bungie forums use a random grey as post background.

Black default text on a white background looks so much better, and is a bit more eye-friendly when introducing additional colours to the font palette.
Have you ever tried green or red text with Coup on a dark post background? Good God, my eyes!

  • 07.21.2011 12:19 AM PDT

On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll look
A corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.
Win.

Green and red do. As do dark colours, obviously.
I know this from my retarded early days in Coup.

I have a picture somewhere of a phpBB-powered board's posting tools from the last time I asked for more posting tools (shot down for reasons that weren't hugely relevant IIRC), I'll try find it again.
Posting tools
The tools in a red box are tools that can only apply to NationStates, of course.

Because it's a site rule not to, they don't have problems with system abuse of them.

[Edited on 07.21.2011 12:34 AM PDT]

  • 07.21.2011 12:29 AM PDT

On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll look
A corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.
Win.

Bungie's tools suddenly look rather sparse, don't they.

In fact you could say they looked positively...
Spartan?

[Edited on 07.21.2011 1:02 AM PDT]

  • 07.21.2011 1:02 AM PDT

Yes, there're too many numbers in my name.

That seems a little creepy looking at these codes and realizing that back then they meant something. But right now they're just empty.

  • 07.21.2011 5:04 AM PDT

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WoW, I had forgotten all about color text. I only remember seeing it a few times. And now that I think about it, it was around 04.

  • 07.21.2011 5:31 AM PDT

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The colored bbcode was abused too much which led to the removal of the colors.

Another thing that also led to it being removed was people were impersonating bungie employee's since they had the color text.


I do remember when people would use color codes to mark parts of their text for the important parts such as key locations and map names for halo 1 and the early days of when people were talking about halo 2.

  • 07.21.2011 5:42 AM PDT
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If I remember correctly, it was removed August 04 (I think?). And yeah, it was very heavily abused which is why it was removed.

  • 07.21.2011 6:04 AM PDT

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