- Yax
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Posted by: r c takedown
Yax is a shining beacon in these dark times. You should all strive to be more like Yax.
Posted by: Skibur
Is it really still necessary for the moderators to have their distracting, attention grabbing and often derailing coloured text?No. It derails threads and separates the mod from the community, making it nearly impossible for them to post like a "normal" user. Also, it's bloody ugly.
Would their forum title and maybe an orange title bar be enough?Yes. Although I think they need something more subtle than orange. In fact, I think it would work pretty good if they had regular title bars (normal, herioc, legendary, mythic) with "Forum Moderator" slapped on there. Ninja would confuse new members.
Plus, they have custom avatars.
On a separate but related note, if member titles/titlebars were to be done away with, should the moderators profiles follow suit?Probably. Or, like I said, give them a very subtle colour.
This is one of the few forum changes that I feel strongly about. Moderators are always complaining how they can't engage in the community normally and how they want to be just seen as a regular member and yet they have this bright, obnoxious text.
And if they are so attached to the title bars and hard-to-read text, they could just implement a system where they could switch it on and off. So when they are making 'official' comments from their position as a mod, they'd click a box, and when they are just making regular posts they'd leave it and look exactly like one of us.
I'll probably be posting this same thing, more or less, for the next few years. I don't see change on the horizon.