Originally Posted by
WeooWeoo
Of course it's a convenience thing. He wants a blue name to match his set.
In my personal preference. I like it, but prefer the normality of everyone having red names unless being some sort of administrator in a department more.
Even if everyone having blue names, it just doesn't sit right.
For instance, my set up is black and white. I prefer neutral colors. A black name would look best with mine. Yet, it shouldn't matter. I should just apply for clan mod if I want that.
In which, I think this may be why you applied for SMod in the first place.
The word I used was conveyance, not convenience. The easier it is for an idea to be explained or understandable, the better. In a game like Toribash, where you have all sorts of age groups using the forums, it's good to make things simple. It's good to have the staff clearly separated from the rest of it's members and easy to locate. Giving that up isn't worth the small satisfaction of players getting to change their name colors simply because it fits their forum set better. Of course I'm not advocating for people to apply for jobs in the Toribash community just to get the color they are after, that's downright silly.
Let's pretend for a second that you monitored the color selection to make hues available that aren't used by staff. First off: you now limit what colors staff can use to distinguish themselves if a new usergroup or position needs to be created (View this thread to see just how many colors staff has already used:
http://forum.toribash.com/showthread.php?t=330401
If you scroll down you'll see how there's over 80 users registered. Imagine if a great deal of those players had just an avalanche of skittle-drizzled usernames. It would be an eye-sore. Imagine if you were posting in a thread, saw a user had a darkish green or light green name and had a scam report? Maybe you'd accidentally send it to him thinking he's a Market Squad member. Maybe you get staff impersonation problems.
The point is, for 8 years now colored names have been exclusively used for staff only. The one time that wasn't the case, was pointed out by Solax, and it caused a head ache of problems. And that only was with a few users of a small community. Creating a resurgence of that problem for no reason isn't worth it.
Hopefully that makes sense. I just really think that one of the staff's strongest tools is identifying themselves from the regular user, and anything that can be done that creates confusion around that better be really worth it. To this day - people still ask Torilegends to host tournaments because they see their colored usernames in-game and think they are GMs/Trial GMs. It's not even uncommon for people to be confused when they see an old-schooler's "+" symbol. But I love all ideas that inspire more creativity in forum sets
Last edited by Bodhisattva; Jan 21, 2016 at 06:29 AM.