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Colored debian forum account

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cola
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Colored debian forum account

#1 Post by cola »

Some accounts in this forum are colored green and red.
They are moderators?
Why?
How is it done?

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#2 Post by Pick2 »

At the bottom of our Main Page is a legend:
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#3 Post by Telemachus »

cola wrote:Some accounts in this forum are colored green and red.
They are moderators?
Why?
How is it done?
The previous poster answered "Why?" As for "How is it done?", the answer is the magic of CSS, I imagine. Theoretically, you could just check the source in a browser window, but PHPBB may have some gnarly code. I'll check myself and report back shortly...

Edit: Yup, in the HTML around my name, you'll find this (among other stuff):

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style="color: #00AA00;" class="username-coloured"
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Personally, I find it pretty appalling that this forum is still segregated.
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dbbolton wrote:Personally, I find it pretty appalling that this forum is still segregated.
And British, to judge by the spelling at least.
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#6 Post by jheaton5 »

I don't find color coding related to a user's extended function on the board to be offensive at all. It seems to me that it is helpful to know if someone is an administrator or a moderator. IMO.
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#7 Post by refracta »

I am personally offended by an account name having color when I cannot choose my own color nor can I block colors I do not want to see. I demand a forum change and everyone to be the same color or we all get to pick a color. This unfairness has to stop!

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#8 Post by jheaton5 »

refracta wrote:I am personally offended by an account name having color when I cannot choose my own color nor can I block colors I do not want to see. I demand a forum change and everyone to be the same color or we all get to pick a color. This unfairness has to stop!
You have your own color. It's black.
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#9 Post by dbbolton »

jheaton5 wrote:You have your own color. It's black.
Ok, that crosses the line.

Well, the intended joke was that there were different types of accounts based on the color of something other than names (I'm pretty sure that is not true). Last night there was a colored man in my kitchen. What color was he? Blue.

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#10 Post by jheaton5 »

dbbolton wrote:
jheaton5 wrote:You have your own color. It's black.
Ok, that crosses the line.

Well, the intended joke was that there were different types of accounts based on the color of something other than names (I'm pretty sure that is not true). Last night there was a colored man in my kitchen. What color was he? Blue.

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