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Pretty Colors

by Steve Gibson, Jan 29, 2002 10:02am PST
Related Topics – boobies

Just a note about the pretty colors I mentioned yesterday. I decided to color code a couple different post categories. Firstly, in the event of a post containing relevant or interesting information about a story at hand, or a post by a developer involved on the project, we'll be marking the post with a teal header so the more interesting/informative posts are easier to spot. Secondly, if a post contains a link that would be considered "Not Work Safe" such as boobies etc, it will have a dark red stripe across the top of the post. They will look like this:

Informative/Interesting
Not Work Safe
In order to see Not Work Safe posts, you must adjust your options. A couple of notes though, currently in threaded mode subthreads are not capable of showing the color coding until we get a code update. Hopefully we'll get that remedied in the near future. The big fear here being that a change like this may turn threads in to a "look how smart I think I am" pissing match. If that happens, I'll pull the feature. But I'm hoping this just encourages a few more good posts and makes it easier for most people to spot the especially interesting things people or developers say. Also: There are currently no plans for color coding any other categories. If you choose to browse the stupid/trolling posts that's your decision.


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    By: anonimo x
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    I'm not sure if this has been suggested or not... I didn't see it anywhere in this news item's comments, so here goes...

    I like the idea of the colored headers, it does allow them to stand out much more easily. However, I would also suggest displaying the text as well, as * N O T W O R K S A F E * is pretty clear to everyone, regardless of their inexperience level with the Shack, whereas a simple red heading wouldn't necessarily mean anything to someone who's never been here before.

    Of course, if you're intention is to trick 8-year-old latch-key kids into clicking on porn links, you're on the right track to Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass PrisonTM!
    Jan 29, 2002 2:25pm PST
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    By: Raziel x
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    Well, if you're not going to color offtopic/stupid crap, can you at least make ontopic a similar color to informative? I feel like informative shouldn't stand out so much (I thought the idea wasn't to reward informative, to prevent glory whoring)

    Another thing, are posts in an unmoderated state (before they get one of the checkboxes ticked?) Perhaps those could be a specific color too.

    It'd be sweet if "unmoderated" was an option..

    Last but not least if a post is NWS and you dont have NWS ticked, maybe you can just see the red titlebar but no post body. I have been confused by big gaps in post #'s. Plus, it sortof clues you in to your current option settings. And it would be nice to be able to override them on a whim.

    Of course i'm probably asking the impossible, given Steve's hints at how yumbled the Yavascript is back there...
    Jan 29, 2002 10:38am PST