Colours in Posts

[IndieSinger]

AB Editor - you're edited all my posts in one thread (here - but nowhere else) presumably because I wrote them in purple (you've changed them all to black). Is typing in different colours not aloud? If so, would it not make life easier for you if you just didn't offer the option of using a different colour in posts?

[lodekka]

*GAB* IndieSinger

 

If it's aloud, I haven't heard.

[FP]

I'm being very good and not blotting my copybook!

[bernardo]

Hello Indie.  You may be aware that a few weeks ago, the Editor also arbitrarily and with no good reason edited some of my answers by un-bolding the bold bits.  He/she never bothered to explain why, despite the fact that I asked for an explanation several times.

A few days ago, and in a completely different context, ther Editor erroneously, falsely, inaccurately and incorrectly stated that bold was considered the equivalent of shouting (even though everybody knows that CAPITALS is actually the equivalent of shouting).  I then pointed out to the Editor that bold was not in fact shouting, and the editor apologised to people for wrongly unbolding some answers.

 

I then pointed out to the Editor that it would have avoided a whole lot of antagonism and ill-feeling if he/she had simply bothered to say so in the first place, instead of giving us no explanation.  As such, the Editor was being rude (by not giving an explanation) as well as being inaccurate (by claiming that bold was the equivalent of shouting).

 

I can only presume that the Editor was simply being equally rude in your case.  I suggest that you should do what I did: simply re-submit your answers in purple.  If the Editor then incorrectly unpurples or deletes them, do it again.  Carry on doing it again and again and again (as many times as necessary) until he/she gets the message that we are not prepared to tolerated being insulted and treated like children in this way without any explanation being given.

 

And I agree with your last point - the fact that we are able to use colours, bold, underlining etc. in our answers obviously means that it is up to us (not the Editor) to decide what style we wish to use in answering questions.

[smudge]

IndieSinger & bernardo - If you look on People & Places under the heading of 'spliff' - you will see that I have been accused - by country_boy -  of 'enboldening words' or 'writing with italics' just to make a point'.

 

AB Ed - many people asked for these facilities & you made it possible, so why are we now being critised for them?

 

Wouldn't it be easier to go back to the grey old days & not have them at all, that way certain negative people could find something else to moan about!

[smudge]

*using them

[AB Editor]

INDIESINGER - I'm sorry, I don't recall ever changing the colours on anyone's post. It's not something my colleagues or I ever do. Perhaps there is a technical problem somewhere.

I'll look into it at my end, and perhaps you could investigate where you are. Please let me know if anything comes up.

Cheers!

BERNARDO - I believe that I have explained several times to various users that I consider all-bold texts as shouting. I'm sure you have read my explanations and commented on them.

I'm sorry if I haven't previously addressed you personally on this issue. Please understand that moderating TheAnswerbank is a demanding job and that I, like all humans, occassionally make mistakes and omissions.

Part of my moderating job is to enforce site policy - removing email addresses, for example - and maintaining a certain consistency, like altering all-bold and all-cap messages. Other than these, you are free to use whatever colours and styles that are available.

All the best.

[bernardo]

Oh dear!  A phantom gremlin editor!

[smudge]

AB Ed - I'm a little confused. On the one hand you say that bold text is like shouting & on the other, you post INDIESINGER & BERNARDO'S names in bold & cap's as above. Is it one rule for you & one for us? Sorry I just had to ask.

[Jenny Tools]

Life is like a box of chocolates - milk, dark and white.

[IndieSinger]

AB Editor - I'm not entirely sure what I'm supposed to be "looking into" at my end, but slowly but surely, all my posts are being un-purpled. The latest victims being here and here.

 

Is some of your editing job being done by malfunctioning robots?

 

Also, in the original thread (here) "you" unbolded the name Quizmonster (standard practise to bold people's username on this site - as you yourself do above) but Quizmonster's post above mine still has my name in bold.

 

[Marsh]

AB Ed, I used blue to separate a quiz answer from the rest of a posting.  Overnight it was changed to black and italics substituted.  This worked just as well so I assumed you were starting to impose a "house style" to make the site neater and easier to read.
If we have got a phantom editor, shouldn't we e-mail Andrew Lloyd Webber?

[FP]

I am using all colours and styles that are available:

• HapPy ChriStMas AB Ed.   xx

and a Very Prosperous and Stress Free New Year!

You did say we could and you wouldn't object!

[bernardo]

"I believe that I have explained several times to various users that I consider all-bold texts as shouting."

 

You have only ever mentioned it once, just a few days ago.

[Jenny Tools]

RAINBOW TALK IS SO ANNOYING

[bernardo]

Oh by the way, the gremlin has removed some of the spaces betweeen paragraphs in some of my answers.

[IndieSinger]

More have de-purplified! Look here!