Topic: Poll: Colored Text Usage in Forum Posts (Read 1327 times)

Ok.. Fair enough.

I will await the deliverance of the 1 BTC from the dweeb....


waiting....


waiting...





Maybe he will give me a estimated time of deliverance in terms of how long it might take him to gather funds or to otherwise do whatever preparations that he might need to make on his end prior to delivering the 1 BTC to me?

Now 2 Clowns and Beggars

@holydarkness and @ JayJuanGee

found each other 

Alternatively... he offered you a deal to give you 1 BTC because he think you're a beggar by having your address displayed. I think the clause of the deal is quite clear. He think you're in need of money, and thus he offered to give, voluntarily. This does not necessarily and directly translates into begging, what he thinks does not necessarily means what actually happening, as you did not make an explicit post asking for donation, thus no forum rule is being violated. On the other hand... he offered a deal, be it considered as casual or written [since, well, it is written], and if he backed away from that deal...

I did not measure myself, but probably around 30 minutes....

By the way, if you had not noticed, I attempted to engage in somewhat random highlighting and/or coloring of various pieces of the text within my post, so that the changes in format did not really add much if anything to the substance of the message (and perhaps even distracted to the actual message), in similar ways that JackpotRacer's various formatting choices does not tend to help him to better communicate whatever actual underlying message that he might possibly have.


Offering a private bitcoin address in a public way (such as I do) cannot stop anyone from sending bitcoin to such bitcoin address, so it does not matter to me whether JackpotRacer voluntarily chooses to send me a bitcoin or not or even a fraction of a bitcoin.  It seems pretty lame to talk about bitcoin transactions as if they were to have to be done in 1 BTC chunks (it is a kind of amateur way of talking about bitcoin, so maybe JackpotRacer does not really know, understand and/or appreciate the value of a whole bitcoin?), when surely bitcoin transactions can be accomplished in quite an array of denominations.  

For example, frequently, I attempt to be more practical in terms of bitcoin transaction propositions that I make on the forum..  Many times my own propositions will come in the form of making bets with other members who I believe to be making extreme propositions, so frequently in those kinds of contexts, in order to make whatever point that I would be wanting to make contrary to the proposition of the other forum member, I personally do not tend to agree to bet in high amounts.. even anything that might be over a $100 or $200 or so..  - at least in terms of the dollar value.

On the other hand, sometimes bets can become a bit confusing, especially if they are not 50/50 bets, and I suppose that if odds of bets are on one side versus the other side (rather than a 50/50 bet), then by definition one side of the bet would end up having high amounts of value attached to it (if the bet were structured in that kind of a way) and the other side of the bet would have relatively lower amounts....

Another thing is that in recent times, based on some of the surprises of inconsistent and even relatively high transaction fees, I don't really want to voluntarily engage in lower level transactions on the main blockchain, unless we might agree to do our transaction on the lightning network or some kind of lower fee area (but not necessarily on any shitcoin).. .. for example transactions of less than $100 might be better to carry out on the lightning network rather than on the main chain.

But yeah whatever, I know that I did not respond to JackpotRacer's proposition to give me a gift, since an actual gift does not require any kind of back communication or acceptance, so it seems that JackpotRacer would prefer to engage in some kind of back and forth interaction that he could later self-servingly and likely disingenuinely characterize as "begging." 

On the other hand, if JackpotRacer were actually genuine in his offer, he should not need any back and forth interaction from me in regards to the topic, even though since this is a public correspondence, he currently is getting some of the back and forth that he seems to have had wanted, so in that regard, JackpotRacer can send me a bitcoin if he wants or some non-dust level amount of bitcoin - though many of us likely already can recognize and appreciate that JackpotRacer is not really a member who any of us would want to engage in any kind of voluntarily transaction in which he would actually need to follow through with any kind of a promise that he might make (if we might even get him to agree to some kind of a promise.. and in this case, if someone is sending a gift, as JackpotRacer seems to had been proposing some seeming variation of a gift, there is no reason for the recipient, such as me, to agree to the receipt of it, unless he is proposing something other than a gift.. Accordingly, could he be wanting me to jump through some hoops prior to his sending the 1 bitcoin that he supposedly has for such purposes, in the event that he really were to actually have a whole bitcoin that he is ready, willing and able to send in terms of an actual genuine offer rather than merely putting out exaggerated and baseless promises that he has no intention of fulfilling?).  

Alternatively, if this were another context and if I were to enter into some kind of a bet with a member like JackpotRacer in which there might be a requirement for compliance and/or follow-through of such promise, I would most likely prefer to have escrow for any significant amounts of bitcoin - especially since we can see that JackpotRacer has somehow managed to accumulate a decent amount of negative trust.  

I wonder why?  hahahaha..


not..

Be honest, how long do you spend to write this hilarious post?

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Though I doubt you have 1 BTC to spare, but... did you... just... offering a written deal to JJG to send him above amount as a donation because you think he's a beggar? JJG, you accepted this offer?

You can colour your text as you like only if it is for your personal reading. You make it less straining when it's for public consumption.

It is true that you can eat whatever you like, but you can't serve the public whatever you want. Rather you'll serve what is generally acceptable.

You can drive any car you want but not a government or military car.

There's freedom, but you don't use it to inconvenience others. I spent almost 30 mins trying to read from this page. The colour hazard is a nightmare, I don't think I'm coming to this thread again.
I would have voted if there's an option like "do what is right"

The reason(s) for my post seems to already be self-contained in my post, so there is likely hardly any need for further description and/or explanation.

Surely, there can be objective and subjective ways to valuate the post(s) or the posting history of any member.

Probably, there is also no real need to go into detail in regards to the posting history of either you or me, even though both of us have been registered on the forum for quite a long time with your coming upon 9 years within a few days, and my own having a forum registration that is right around 16 months longer than you.

There have been some times in which I have engaged in some of my own formatting experiments, and even disagreeing with other forum members in regards to some of my presentation choices whether having to do with substance and/or style, so yeah to the extent that any of us might be attempting to be genuine in our communication of ideas on the forum, we do not necessarily need to agree with other members regarding some of the discretionary presentation matters in regards to style and/or substance.. even though sometimes style could get in the way, which surely seems to be more obvious in your situation as compared with my own situation, and even though at some point, there may well be questions in regards to whether some members might be presenting themselves with genuineness and perhaps even worthy of having their posts deleted or infringements upon their forum membership, whether if that might be through suspensions, banning or other forms of punishment.   

I think that theymos tends to be considerably open and tolerant of varying styles (even if some of the styles might be annoying), yet even forum administrators might have differing opinions in regards to which kinds of posts and/or which kinds of members might be deserving of their posts to be deleted or the terms of their forum membership to be curtailed in one form or another.  I doubt that my style and/or my presentation is even as close to being as questionable as to your own.. but hey whatever, I don't really care that much, even though as I said, I did end up going through this thread based on an initial interest in the topic, even though I interpret your own presentation of the issue regarding format (color specifically) devolving into a bit of trite self-absorbedness.

Thanks for the laugh as I do not understand why you took the time for this BS posting of yours?

Maybe because you are a Beggar and posted your BTC address to get some sats. Can I send you 1 BTC? 

BTW
largely,[color=purple] @JayJuanGee [/color]you are the stupid (retarded) and/or incomplete Beggar!

Shame that members like you are not banned here!

I finally finished reading through this thread, and on the surface, I thought that there might have had been some kind of potentially interesting points in regards to the use of text colors in the forum, and/or other aspects related to posting style - yet largely, Op did not raise any real interesting or meaningful points, and even his poll questions are a bit stupid (retarded) and/or incomplete.



I am surely not neutral on the topic of forum members being able to post in colors, since personally it seems that being able to add colors can potentially help to emphasize or de-emphasize certain ideas contained within any post... yet at the same time, there is likely a bit of value in judiciousness rather than just having your posts in some other chosen color of the day for seemingly random and arbitrary reasons..or maybe ONLY reasons known to OP that still get back to the idea of attempts at attention whoring rather than sharing of actual significant and/or meaningful substance.



Surely as many other members have already mentioned in this thread, OP seems to merely want to get attention and does not really have much if anything to say with his font color choices, which also have already been pointed out to be both colorful and also screaming with BOLD.. and surely OP specifically fails/refuses to recognize and/or appreciate his own seemingly non-substantive desires for attention over meaningless and unimportant points which goes to trolling, distractions and noise rather than providing any kind of meaningful and substantive contributions to the forum.



I am not going to claim to have had read all (or even any.. from the substance of OP's posts in this thread and without even reading any of OP's historical posts, I am having some trouble imagining that there is any value in OP's historical posts) of OP's historical posts, and I doubt that it is even necessary to go through such a likely painful experience, since I merely became acquainted with OP through this thread, and I already saw enough of his boring repetitive drolling to realize that his desires to use varying font colors while bolding such text is not really helpful to anyone (perhaps not even helpful to himself), except to show him as a bit of an uninteresting nuisance.. and likely either immature, disingenuine (in terms of purposefully wanting to distract from topics, which is also known as trolling) or mentally instable as others have already mentioned aspects of these ideas and/or assessments of OP's character.. which surely is NOT likely too central to OP's stated purpose of this thread, but his own style ends up unnecessarily drawing attention to his character rather than really allowing some kind of meaningful exploration of potential upsides to using color and style within the font choices of posts.

Fair enough and thanks for the nice example

Naturally, too much of anything can be very problematic, I only support appropriate usage of the color text without abusing it such a way it will not become irritating in the eyes of the reader, I think the colored text are meant to be used in marking a vital and important note that should get the reader attention easily as regards to how much of important the text is to the poster, below is one user color texting pattern I admires so much.


You can see how important and vital the colored text can be to those it is relating to.

I did do the poll. But you are right that I should have mentioned my vote: It was for neutral. because I see it as neither a bad nor good thing.

You said in your opening post that you were being attacked for your colorful text. I just decided to be truthful from my perspective as to why that may be. I did not mean to hurt your✨💖🌸 feelings 🌸💖✨.

Just read your post again, you should see that you attacked me! Let me say it again > this is a poll and you should vote and can explain why you voted how.

Since you show a signature, I thought you were a member of a signature campaign. That you have rented your space for a signature is not written there!
That you have no minimum or maximum postings or that you are not a member of a signature campaign does not matter, because you get paid for showing your signature. The word >renting< tells me that you are getting paid to carry the signature. Simple as that. If you were to have that signature without payment, I would apologize. Is there a member who carries a signature without being paid? I would take my hat off! as you can see I am not a member of any signature campaign and never have been.

Now back to the colored text, since you are still complaining.

you can color your text as you like same for me
you can eat whatever you like same for me
you can drive any car you like and same for me
you can vote as you like and same for me

this list can go on and on

I strongly oppose it and I would actually support a total ban of colored texts. The basic editing tool like bold and underline is more than enough to highlight something in your post. I'm glad that it's not a common occurrence here and I would probably end up ignoring members who post like that. No offense to anyone who thinks it's okay.

Contain your impotent rage, I was not trying to insult nor attack you. Perhaps you have thin skin or simply misunderstood me?   

Also, I have no posting requirements. I rent the signature out privately, not through a signature campaign. And even if you did not know that you could have taken a look at my number of posts and realized that I had way more posts than any signature campaign would count as a maximum. So your argument that I posted simply to show off my signature makes no sense.

But back to the color issue, yes greener is better on the eyes. Your red and green text makes it feel like Christmas in March.

I voted "I support it" because although I never use this option, "Change Color", myself, I have nothing against it either. I think, if it exists here on bitcointalk there's a reason for that. Sometimes when someone utilizes this option they make their posts looking more clear and also fun to read. But, of course, overusing it is not advisable.

Oh, I did not know that you are the signature manager of Livecasino.io and you pay for these shitty and insulting posts.

if it is a minor dispute or not it does not matter as it is a posting here in forum. why do you think you will not get any payment for postings in sub forums the signature manager tells you?

Regarding @Igebotz I can say that he has no right to insult like he did and he should do his DD like you should do.

I am sure that Livecasino.io will not be happy to pay even 1 Sat for these posts.

Same for your signature manager and the owner of BC.game

Yes he will, we don't give a shit about some minor disputes.
I've seen nothing wrong here, you asked for votes, votes come with opinions and it seems to me you're the one handling it immaturely.

Igebotz is one of the better posters in gambling sections and his strong opinions bring some color (pun intended) to a forum filled with ChatGPT bots.

Don't you get it? this is a simple poll and everyone can write his opinion but the poll is not about me that means there is no reason to insult me or mention me. JUST VOTE and tell us your opinion if and why a forum has text formatting and should be deleted or not. it is not a personal poll.

Everyone is welcome to hate me, but he should think about why he does and should do his DD.

Maybe I will open a poll who is the most hated member on this forum and why LOL = not a bad idea though.

Your chances are very small as you are just a stupid signature spammer without sticking to the topic of this thread, so no reason to hate you. One can only feel sorry for you 

Shame that your signature manager pays you even 1 sat for these posts.

OP, I think that you should lock this thread if you don't want members to vote and come up with their suggestions on your questions, then why create the thread. Because I see it that anyone against your opinion looks like they should not comment here, and is against you. Some people hates it when they are been told the truth. We are not in a painting forum.

yes no one is criticizing me LOL only insulting = shove your colours to your A...

And you really get money from your Signature Manager and from the Livecasino you advertise for these insults?

Let's see what they have to say when I report this?

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What are you talking about? do you have any idea how many members are here in this forum and how much is 33 in relation to the number of members?

No one forced you to read the poll and participate. Oh sorry, you were forced by your signature! now you have earned another few sats for an empty and stupid post that does not make the Signature Campaign Manager and the Rollbit Owner look good and serious!

Nobody is criticising you, and if you believe you would receive 50-60 votes on your BS poll, you are not as mature and intelligent as I thought. You're only getting this much attention because of your coat of many colours writeup, and if you don't stop painting the forum with colours, you'll end up on a long ignore list, and you'll eventually grow bored talking to yourself and quit.

Stop feeling insulted and accept advice: whether I get paid or not is none of your business, and one more thing, shove your colours to your A...

OP, I must let you know that majority wins the vote, because if majority of members here are saying color text usage often is bad, then you need to accept it. Anytime I read your post on this thread with different colors, it makes my vision somehow blurry. I have to stress my lens and stay more focus on the text before I can read it, and it discourages me to continue reading. This is how I see it, but I don't know about other. If you look at it from this side, most books and writeups that share vital information and knowledge are in black text, because it looks cool and easy to read. It is a norm that computer displays text in black color by default, there is a reason for that. It is good when you use it in the right way.

Are there only stupid offenders in this thread? This is a POLL! any idea what statistics are? A POLL with 33 votes! that is nothing and the current result tells nothing.

Shame if your signature manager gives you even 1 sat for this BS.

I did not open the poll for you or anyone else to tell me how to use colors or text formatting.

But yeah, it is too much for you to understand the simplest thing like a POLL.

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I bet everything you like that if I open another thread and every word in a different color that many or even most of the members in the given sub forum like games and rounds will read it and participate! everything is a question of sats! why are you wearing and showing your signature? can you answer this? I am sure you can LOL

By the way, the Poll result with 33 votes tells us nothing, but the posting of so much BS and insults tells everything. So it was worth opening the poll

Using any of the forum tools and buttons is never a bad idea in fact they all exist because of their distinct uses and importance in a thread or post. Now it is also important to note that abusive use of anything always turns out to become hated and even awkward. Therefore we should make sure to always use things in the right manner. If you make a post using different colours , thinking it will attract an audience it definitely will but I will attract those that will criticize the post instead.

Using colours correctly, gives your post more details and direction. For example red can be used to indicate a cautious or crucial information in the text and even green can be used to indicate prices and other stuff depending on the context of the writeup. Take for example all those important and informative threads by nice forum members, if they were all written in weird colors, I bet you a majority of users will definitely lose interest in going through it . Besides what use is a thread if no one wants to read it?

Yes everything about OP scream " I'm a teenager don't discuss about me or I tell mom" he doesn't care about advice, opinion of others, he only cares about being mentioned.

Op the poll results are against your coat of many colours, and you don't need the whole community to vote to realise that as an adult, unless you're a teenager as we suspected

BTW why did you kick him like that ?  laughs

Yes, I am offended because you must have seen my post above yours! I'm going to respect everyone who respects me! it's as simple as that.

This is a POLL, so please treat it as a POLL and no need to mention me and tell me what to do or how to behave. I can always decide later after the poll how to behave if I have learned something. Right now I only see attacks and insults against me. It is only a POLL guys.

Maybe it will help if I repeat my post.


Why do you mention me  no need at all! just vote in the Poll and give us your Vote!

it could well be that many of you don't know what  Poll is   

Let me explain it ELI5

A poll has question(s) and everyone is welcome to vote with yes or no or agree or disagree.
Then if you want to explain your opinion, why you voted what, so welcome!

Do you understand that there is no need to mention anyone 

The way you behave OP only shows your age as a teenager, from which you cannot get out. From post to post, proving to everyone that you don’t care about opinions is also an indicator that you won’t be able to prove yourself better than responding with rudeness and disrespect for society. The desire to stand out and be different from everyone else can be a good quality, but not where it causes inconvenience. I don't want to offend you; however, you should also treat people with respect online; otherwise, many will ignore you, which will ultimately lead to self-talk.


You asked for an opinion, and you saw it, so accept it and find better things to express your “I”

And yes, I am also against it. While you see that the majority vote is against using the color of the fashion community, why don't you switch to normal orientation in your posts?

Why do you mention me no need at all! just vote in the Poll and give us your Vote!

it could well be that many of you don't know what  Poll is 

Let me explain it ELI5

A poll has question(s) and everyone is welcome to vote with yes or no or agree or disagree.
Then if you want to explain your opinion, why you voted what, so welcome!

Do you understand that there is no need to mention anyone

If anyone is discussing about you, it's because you appear to be the only one who doesn't know how to use the colour text feature. Colour text is used for special references.

The colour text option is crucial for most of us who know how to use it; sorry, it is not going away; you may continue to paint everywhere with it. No one is attacking you. .

first of all everyone can eat and spice his food as he likes!

next > I opened this Poll and kindly asked to refrain from any personal attacks. so you and all others should concentrate on the Poll and not on me. to give you an example > if any other member would open this Poll he would not be attacked and it would be a friendly Poll. Isn't that interesting

I will not let anyone attack me for no reason. we are talking about the forum if they should remove the color text option or the text format at all. why would you discuss me?

If you add much spices to a soup, you can't tell which portion to eat so it's either you eat or you don't eat it all.

You created this thread to ask of the community opinion and attacking those dropping their little cents is not helping you. You need to slow down. Colored text is allowed but over using makes your post looks bad.

I hope you voted in the Poll.

Do you really blame me if you don't like spices, or if there are too many spices in your food, so that it tastes terrible to you?

My friendly advice in this case is to leave the spices aside and eat anything without spices you don't like. means you decide what you eat.

Translated to colored text, if you see colored text and it is too much for you, the ignore button is just a click away.
There is no need to make a drama.

Little spice is ok, but too much of it and food tastes awful and that's exactly what you are doing with the way you format your posts.

Bro, let me first say that many members of this forum are lousy, they like to be controlling and want you to do what they are pleased with. F*ck it! Anyone who is annoyed by a coloured text should skip your post, it is never by force. Though black is the best anywhere, you may still mix it for the best appearance the way you like it.

Regarding the vote, I can see that the opposition is slightly winning the vote, regardless, many others voted otherwise against the opposition to make it not entire.

I just voted "Neutral" because it is never my headache and I read whatever comes my way so far it is constructive not minding this unnecessary context. I advise you to write and design as you like but ensure that you strictly adhere to the rules of the forum. Let them point to the rule of the forum that states otherwise.

Neutral.

Neutral

Yes absolutely

No

We can make us eof a coloured text in typing our posts, but we have to understand that this does not necessarily have to be all the times, we may only colour the little part we want to be more noticeable from the content to our posts, it doesn't have to carry all the entire contents being coloured, also, it's something that we shouldn't do everytime, we can bolded the text in case of those that may not want to use a coloured text.

well to be fair comic books use colored text. but comics books generally have some sort of coherency to them.

here you go > short and to the point! without any attacks or insults

Not voting I somewhat support it. I sometimes use it. But I suffer from color blindness.

Not completely but impaired.

red

red

so the red above in 20 pt I can see as red
the red above in 6 pt is hard for me to see

Now if you do
 regular black
bold black
some blue fine

some people complaining may not realize that they have mild color impairment.

lets say unimpaired color vision is a 9 or 10
lets say my impairment is a five
lets say the people complaining are better than me but not normal
maybe a 7 they see the colors but find it stress full to read.

Imagine being against this… Some people really need to get lives and stop trying to play forum policemen all day every day. It’s pathetic. If someone is posting text in colors you don’t like, hit the ignore button. Problem solved. It isn’t that hard. If this is the sort of thing you are thinking about when using this forum, you need to find a Bitcoin project to be a part of.

I don't have a problem with using text colors in posts, but if it becomes a routine habit for most users then it will clearly be very annoying (especially if they use red, blue or other striking colors). In some of my posts, I also use color (but not often), especially in titles and sub-headings. This only emphasizes the point of the discussion, but I try to remain neutral in this case.

Halab seems to be a real expert and artist regarding his sample posting. But can anyone point me to a similar posting here in this forum? I am almost 10 years here and have never seen anything like this. but it would be a nice captcha idea. 


Are you saying that it is ok to use colored text in announcement threads, reviews and signature campaigns and is not confusing, but in a normal post it is confusing? sounds contradictory to me. BTW an announcement thread is in my opinion an important one for the announcing member, so I don't think he wants to confuse the readers. But still it is done and IMO very justified.

Cheers

I selected "I do not support it" option of the poll. The reason is simple, the more posts we see in color the more we will get annoyed. And, when it comes to text formatting then you can check Halab's post to see how confusing it could be if someone uses wrong type of text in his/her posts.

I think it's normal to use colored text in reviews sometimes and in announcement threads or review + signature campaigns if the color helps to match the theme of the platform. However, in normal posting, use of colors can be quite confusing to many users.

I use colored text sometimes, usually when I want to use it as a warning.
You shouldn't use all bold and all caps in your post, but I don't mind posts with colored text.

I don't see any reason why it should not continue to exist.

No, unless someone is making a circus show from all his posts.

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now you made me cry 

interesting how a simple and serious meant poll gets personal.

Bitcointalk posting etiquette
Merits and rank do not denote common sense. It’s weird that I have to explain it to a legendary account who has been here since 2015. Then again by merit system standards, you would be considered a member rank account at best. Well you’ve had your moment of fame.
You’re free to write like a child learning to play with crayons. Putting you on ignore from now on.

Take out whatever you want, I really don't care.
But I bet as soon as I do a contest and every word of the text and the highlight as you call it is in a different color and the contest is for example 0.05 BTC that you and many many other color text attackers will not take out the highlights and will have no problem to read it and enter. LOL thanks for the laugh

I did this with colored text years ago and no one complained, why would they? I never complained about colored text and would love to see colored giveaways.

There's a reason books don't get printed in bright red and green font

I have to take out the highlights in your post as it annoys my eyes, as a forum member we should be responsible to our readers for what we are writing and how we write it because this is our means of communication with one another here, the test formatting and colored text has specific use to highlight the important texts on our posts.
If you want people to read and value your post then be responsible for how your post will look like.

Just like you have narrated, there is nothing wrong with the use of colour text, sometimes, there are some expressions we could decide to use colour text to create a different approach to the way we read and comprehend a post. I have once used colour text and many attacked me that they could to read and flow with what I've written easily.
Then I had no option than to adjust so that my written words would be comprehensible for others. I have found out that reading words that is not black in colour especially when they are homogeneous could stress out eye to focus more and the comprehensive level might be minimal. You are write and there is nothing wrong with coloured words but you will have no option than to adjust so people could find you serious in what you have written.

My attitude to this is neutral. I am neither an opponent nor a supporter of this, but if it allows to focus on important points in the text and doesn't irritate, why not.

Depends on how many colors there are in the text. If within reasonable limits that don't turn the text into a rainbow, then why not.

If this feature was originally on the forum, then why on earth should it be removed? Just because a couple of users didn't like it? It sounds absurd.

For that matter, a full-fledged and massive survey should be conducted on the forum so that the administration understands the demand for this and makes changes based on this. Isn't this what it should look like?

As an alternative, can add a “remove all colors” button in account profile to please color-haters by seeing only black and white text.

In fact, it seems to me that this problem is not worth discussing and everything should be left as it was originally.


And to this you already have a ready answer:

If text formatting is available on the forum, then it is acceptable, and those who don't like it have their own personal problems, which they can keep to themselves.

After years on the internet, I'm completely used to ignoring anything that even remotely looks like an advertisement. I've had moments in which I couldn't find something on a website, and it turned out it was in bold dark red with large font. I just don't look at it.

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But hey, you got me intrigued. I could just mess a bit with people, making them doubt their own monitor or eye sight, by slightly adjusting the color of my text a bit. How's this? Feeling like you're going crazy yet? I can't deny I like it, but it's adding a lot of useless data to my post.
It's like a printer that's out of ink

I understand very well and you should know that I understand how this forum works as I was here many years before you. everyone is free to ignore me with just one click. but they will not do it as they could miss a very nice free giveaway. many years ago when I had my casino and did so many giveaway promos in games and rounds and text was also colored no one complained. you can click in my profile the posts of mine many years ago and you will find all my games and rounds giveaway promos in colored text.


100% agree with you


Again, I agree 100% and well said. I just like to add a little color to the text, like spices to food.

Cheers

You do understand that signature are advertisements, right? And if someone is annoyed with the signatures, he can disable them (if you have the rank required). The same way someone can put you on ignore due your text formatting style.


One of the reasons I like this forum so much is that it offers as much personal freedom that is possible and probably more than any other florum I ever visited so I don't think that formatting the text any way you want should be banned (and won't be no matter the results of the poll).

With that being said, we should use the common sense when it comes to the actual use of the text format options but as that old saying goes, common sense is not so common. And if you want to catch other people's attention, much better way is to write quality and interesting posts.

Since you know the right way, please explain it in detail so I can give it to a color psychologist!

If you say that red is the right color to indicate importance, then I will only color my text in red from now on, because everything I write is important. Do you even understand what you are writing? I do not think so!

Why are you attacking me? I did not attack you, I just opened a poll with some serious questions and asked for a friendly discussion.

In this case I would say you are an ugly and evil clown

But at least you made me think about opening a thread where all of you are free to attack me. So you have no reason to mistreat your families.

Please tell me now: Did I use the color red correctly as you suggested?

And bold text too. I guess you like anything that makes you the center of attention.

There is nothing wrong in using color texts in your post. You just have to use it the right way. Colors in texts are supposed to symbolize a certain type of emotion, for example a part of your post could be written in red ink to signify the importance of that particular text. Using multiple colors when posting is ridiculous because it makes you look like a clown and shows you’re not willing to communicate with others. And most importantly it is an eyesore.

The poll is not about me and my use of color. I love colors, that's all, so please don't get personal, because I can get personal too. The poll is about whether or not text formatting should be allowed. In case you did not know, it is the year 2024 and Stone Edge is long gone, so just come out of your cave.



how about red now

Do you have the guts to tell your signature campaign manager that the signature looks like a circus? I don't think so!

Well, it worked, didn't it? Mission accomplished!


Good choice! It suits you.

(One day you'll blossom into a real adult, I'm sure of it.)

What LoyceV said actually reminds me of how I messed up the slide for my project defense. 

During the time I did my project defense at the university, I prepared my slides so colorfully ❤💛💚💙💜 that when I sent them to my supervisor to get a review and remarks, the first question she asked me was, "Am I a baby? She said playing with too much color in coolly written content can actually make the content look offensive to the readers. Color should only be used when there is a need for it; for example, it should be used to point out some action words or incidents that the writer feels are very necessary for the readers to take note of. Color should be used in accordance, not just to paint your whole write-up with too many colors. 

@OP, I agree with what some people have already said here: make your write-ups simple, and if you are not sure of how to correctly use the color, just avoid it.

well if that's the case, then I'm not gonna ask questions pertaining to this again...like i normally say: I don't care about this... cus why TF Should I? I just wanted to be able to differentiate between an AI poster, a real human and possibly, a bot! If this was alleged against someone else, I'll ask the same questions too...
Y'all have been around for too long to have a couple of grudges with different people of your caliber, or maybe some handful of opportunist who'd end up envying y'all for not being where you at...etc.
I see where the problem is

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

Very well said and commented!

My very first post on Bitcointalk was complaining about a captcha. I've come a long way since then, and can solve any captcha to prove how human I am.

Imho it is always about nuances.
Some exaggerate and use too many colors, too much bold, and in many cases they still have an ugly wall of text, just more colored.
Some can format it nicely, maybe add a hint of color here and there and make it so nice that even those opposing colors will like it.

Sadly under this kind of polls I expect to see the first kind of posts, hence my vote is against it.
But it's a free world and a free forum: you are free to post in the way you like it and... no offense intended (at all!) I am free to ignore you if I find out for example that your posts constantly make my eyes hurt.

If you are pissed, why bother commenting, just move on. Carpe Diem


no problem at all, just let a few others agree with you to shut down the Poll, I will shut it down.

In general, most people might think that they'll attract alot of traffic to their post by making it too colourful.. i don't know who fed 'em with this lame idea.

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I'm seeing this again for the second time; aside from reading scraps of stories from 2019 about loyce's allegations, I haven't had full confirmations as to whether or not this is true... I've also realized that alot of reputable members are saying the same thing too, so let me get this straight; is Loyce not ready to prove 'em otherwise? Does this practically infer that they've got a thicker skin?..and that they shouldn't respond to vindicate themselves for this reason?
This isn't enough reason to assume Loyce's a bot... They could simply have different aids; one of which may be a merit bot?.. iDK
I don't know why this has been unascertain for years now.


Sandra 🧑‍🦰

Colors are good, but you are simply overdoing it. Look at your post history, it looks like a notebook of a student from 3rd standard trying to colorize their homework to make it look beautiful. Do you think that is how it should be done? Use colors, but at least be moderate with them.

And I completely disagree with your reference to signature codes when you are trying to make a point. The world is full of colors, but we are not supposed to paint our faces with multiple colors and then say that there are so many colors around, why shouldn't I make myself look colored? You don't do that because your natural color is good as it is. The same thing applies to posts and signature codes. Posts are texts, and the natural and suitable color for that is black, and signatures are designs and designs are supposed to be colorful.

I don't see any serious thing over here to raise this topic because this options has been there even before you and I joined this forum and there is a reason for adding them therefore no need to insert any poll to remove these options, the thing is we should know when to use them and where to apply them while posting here.

 For text colors I hard read text that are all colored because it affects my eyes so hard in a way I can't endure to finished reading the messages most time what I does is that I might copy any text that is colored and paste it into my Msword  and it will be all black then I can read it.

Things to know about your formating tools /text:
You must know where to apply fontcolor
You must know when to apply them
You must know how to apply them
You must know the area or text to use colors.
You must know when to use your bold
You must know where/when to use italics
You must know when to use underline
And many more..
If you know all these things correctly I don't think you will have any issues with any body while writing over here, the main goal is to understand the forum very well before using any tools.

Op, are you a designer? I think designers like Jay, Hugeblack and more should be the ones with great affinity to coloration. The real question should be, what is the essence of using these colours. It could be to Warn, to emphasize, and more. If so, these things doesn't appear so often, why use then often. This forum is not like the social media with great graphics, anything added here that is more than the default will always want to battle with the background of the forum. Even reading Op, I was pissed to understand that you wrote upto 3 paragraphs on bold. What exactly was the essence of bolding the whole thread. Keep it simple, anything you do more than the default will not only stress you but other forum users as well.

Actually what you are saying is that your Signature is a circus design!

By the way, I like the color combination in this design.

for now I like green

I'm all for using formatting strategically, but if it gets in the way of clear communication then what's the damn point?  Just keep it clean and simple - you can get your point across without turning your post into a circus poster.

Fair enough

I thought we could agree that a Signature only in black would not catch the eye of potential customers and would be boring and probably easy to overlook. That is my opinion.

That there are members who like to type long text in black is fine by me, and I think everyone should do it as they please according to the options given.

I love bitcoin because for me it is democracy.

Cheers

Well, signatures are somewhat  like some kinda designs made to attract readers to clicking  their  text which is inform a url (with different colors) and if it's  in a black format, there might not be any difference  to a  normal text  .

I don't  dispute the fact of using a coloured text and for someone like you who loves a long text u might quite use it but not making it to obvious throught the text , I would  suggest  using to catch attention  towards reading  about a particular text in your construction.
Besides, there are some forum users who write long text just like you  and don't  make use of color styling,  just bold styling is beign used .

haha If I'm annoying you, don't feel pressured to post just to show your signature. I call it signature spamming.


do you like green more

By the way, I opened this legit and serious poll to have a friendly and productive discussion and then it would be more than legit to show your signature this way.
Why do you always get personal? you don't have to like me, but why not stay on topic without attacking and insulting?


ok no offense taken

But you did not respond to the quoted text. would you like a black text signature? and if all signatures were black text?

IMO making all text  or selecting  too many  line for a color could make it some how outrageous(permit me to use the word don't  be offended), why not just styling a header or styling  some words from your text.... I think It will make it much more better you know just saying...

Colored text is not the problem. The way you design your text is annoying because it unnecessarily screams for attention as if it demands to be read. Like for example, the text in this topic; Why would you feel the need to make ALL OF IT bold? Did you think that otherwise people would not read it?

Design your text in a non-spammy way and you won't hurt our eyes or annoy anyone. Same goes for the people who write in all caps.

All fine! as I started the Signature color discussion here 

Can you imagine a signature campaign where the signature is in black and not even bold

I like it colorful and well designed

Well I haven't  tried checking  bbcode neither do I know it used for the signature design, this makes me feel more interested 

I obviously read his colored post and this is the main reason for my curiosity for my question. It’s mind blowing to think that he will manually type all this bbcode color code since it’s not available as default in the forum. I hope this is already not Off topic on this thread considering that this is all about text color discussion. Sorry @jackpotracer for slightly hijacking your thread.


Afaik Signature code frequently use hex format if you look at the bbcode of all the signature design in the forum.

Wow!! I didn't  know we could use hex format , on sight I had to quote to check how it's been done, it was so cool .

However, I think what I ought  to type has been typed already but I will like to add that , color texture  are sometimes  disturbing  to readers and  instead of fascinating  readers tend to ignore even if it's  a quality post,
Sometime  color ought to be chosen  based on the background color to compliment it, forget about the Bold

Signatures are graphic designs just like avatars and should carry the colours of the brand they are advertising. Factoids in signatures do not randomly alternate color scheme and neither should texts in a thread.

• If used properly it can make a post easier to read. When abused like you do, it's like a toddlers color book
• The way you use it detracts.
• The forum has multiple text features. I can make a word this big. Doesn't mean I should make my threads using that size of text.

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Instead of looking for reasons to justify your abuse of the color format code, look to make corrections based on what is generally acceptable.

LoyceV is a bot. Bots don't do anything manually!

By the way, have you read his colored text?

I’m not against it if you are just using neutral color to make it calming in the eyes. The forum plain white background is already straining to the eyes during night even with the default black text. Adding color just like what you are using “blue” will make your post very annoying to ready particularly that most of your post is just a negative attack against a certain casino.

You are purposely using color to your post just to attract attention through annoying them. Using it regularly is I strongly disagree because it should be use only on post that need to attract attention such as ANN thread and not a regular post for discussion purposes. Everyone read your post regardless of the color, user just ignore some of your post because you don’t want to discuss if user doesn’t agree with you.

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@LoyceV, do you create that colored post manually? I’m always curious on how do you guys do that (if not manually typing and attaching bbcode color).   

This is crazy! How old are you OP? 12?
Color should be functional, for instance to make a long list easier to read, or to highlight a scam warning. If you post like a Teletubby, I won't bother reading it.

Or go full crazy and use https://www.stuffbydavid.com/textcolorizer

What's with the Bold text? You've earned only 10 Merits in 6 years. That means your posts aren't worth reading, or nobody reads them. Or both. You'll fit right into my Ignore list.
I think you should update your forum netiquette.

for all other posters here regarding text color usage and attacking me in person for using colors.

Let us take your signature as an example, and I want to reiterate that I am in no way against signatures and signature campaigns.
Why do you think are so many colors in the signatures?

the answer should be easy

I opened this poll to get a fair poll and no attacks against me. it is enough if you give your opinion in a friendly way and vote in the poll.

Neutral

it depends, if the poster is using it to organize or highlight parts of their post, then it can enhance the post. but if the poster is using it for the sake of just using it, it can be annoying to read(for example the quoted post _act_ shared above)

yes they should, colored text has its purpose and if it is used correctly it can enhance(as I mentioned before) the post.

I get that you dig the colored text, but that don't automatically make it universally beloved.  And using the excuse that "every forum does it" is just lazy reasoning. Maybe those members who criticized you had a point – colored text can be irritating and unprofessional and can totally throw off someone's flow when reading posts. so before assuming we all share your affinity for colored texts, take a sec to ponder why some folks take issue with it in the first place.

Text coloring exists to highlight certain parts of the text, not the whole thing. The same goes for bold and italics.  You should learn how to use formatting effectively and the etiquette of online communication.

Unless you are a newbie experimenting how to use the forum bbcode format, I don't see any good reason why a post should look like this:


No one will take such posts seriously. I will be quoting @tranthidung thread since it covers everything I want to say:

It depends on how it's used. I think people raise their complain because you use it excessively. Consider use bold or color only on few sentences or words. There's reason phrase "less is more" exist.


Yes.


No.

You like it but others can not like it.

You have freedom to use color for your texts and they have freedom to dislike color used by you in your texts. If they said they don't like your used colors, it does not mean you must stop it. If you see their recommendation is right, you can change your colorful texting style but if you disagree, just use what color you see right.

Honestly you can google and see using colors for texts are not always good and generally their recommendation for you makes sense. It's just you accept it or not and how they used what words to express their recommendation for you so you see it is comfortable or so harsh.

Bitcointalk posting etiquette

I think if people are use colored text for nothing, it's better for theymos to change the domain from bitcointalk.org to kindergarten.org.

Colored text is useful if you want to highlight something, just like in Report plagiarism (copy/paste) here. Mods: please give temp or permban as needed

Also this is not only about colored text, but text styling too, don't use bold for no reason.

Colored text isn't supposed to be an issue on any online forum, except after being abused by some members who actually makes the abuse so obvious and irritating. Yes it's is offered on the forum futures for purpose like highlisting an important part of your post and making it being noticed by your readers.
Creating a whole thread filled with over 3 or more text color to me seems very immature and shows signs of a low quality poster. So if one must use the text color, it must be for some reasons.

Also I have one question for you mate. Do you know that color at different instance Carrys different meaning?
For ever color offered on the forum, they all shows different meaning and tells us some how what the writer is trying to pass along. So when using them, consider what you are trying to pass along before inserting too much color in your post.

Do not expect admin to remove color text feature on this forum because it is very important while making topics and some posts. You can see some people that use it appropriately and it makes their post to be neat and attractive to read.

But some people are using it in a way it makes their posts annoying. Some people will just color all the words in their posts and that is annoying.


Example of the one that is annoying:



But this is not annoying tBTC loans

Some people use it to make what they needed to let people know to easily be seen. Red for example as a warning and something to avoid and blue for example as an important information. But not that they will have all the post in colours.

Hello Members

Since I have been attacked by some members for using colored text in my posts, I thought I would open a poll to see what other members think.

I like colored text.

IMHO every forum I know offers text formatting with all kinds of options including colors for text. There must be a reason for this because if it was not good or acceptable to use the text formatting they would not offer it.

Please vote and give us your pros and cons in a friendly and civilized manner.

Interesting for me is if most members vote to remove and not offer the text formatting, if the forum owner will take it out and delete the text formatting.

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Since I could not find the option to add more questions, I will add more questions with answers here to give more food for discussion. If anyone knows how to do this, I would be grateful if they could point me in the right direction.


Do you like colored text in forum posts?
Yes
No
Neutral

How do you believe the use of colored text enhances or detracts from the forum experience?
Enhances
Neutral
Detracts

Should the forum continue to offer text formatting options, including colors, for posts?
Yes absolutely
Yes with some restrictions
No it should be removed entirely

Should the forum owner only remove the colored text option?
Yes
No


PS
to the Mod:
In case I posted this poll in the wrong subforum, please be so kind and move it to the right one, thanks.