Mod Voices

Currently mods have a "mod voice" that's simply a specific font color for their text. This is generally workable, but doesn't always work well with all themes. A recent example was gibbousmoons' comment in the Tantric is Magic thread. A couple people pointed out that it doesn't work well in the default XenForo theme, and I'll note that it looks even worse in the UI.X Light theme. (See picture: here)

However, QQ has the tables BBCode addon, which gives access to a very important feature: Background color.

In addition, owrtho made some nice 'fake' forum code over on SV (here), and one of the things provided was mod alert boxes (bottom of page 3).

I'm wondering if the mods here might at least consider using some basic setup to allow clearly unambiguously readable text when they provide notices in threads.

Examples:

⚠	Stop doing that.

⚠	Stop doing that.

⚠	Stop doing that.

⚠

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(The pink border is Biigoh's mod color.)

It's just four lines of code, and replacing what's being said in one spot. Slightly more work than just coloring text, but if you don't have 'official' mod boxes, this works as a substitute, and gets rid of the problem of using explicit colored text against a wide variety of theme background colors.

Code:

[xtable=border:3|border-color:#fa0|bcolor:#201000|bcenter|95%x@]{tbody}{tr}
{td=30x@|bcolor:#000}[size=9][color=#fa0][b]⚠[/b][/color][/size]{/td}
{td}[color=#ddd]Stop doing that.[/color]{/td}
{/tr}{/tbody}[/xtable]

 

Honestly it usually takes just as much time for me to make the modpost itself as it does to actually do anything with mod-powers. I'm not interested in making that process even one step more complicated than it is.

If you can't read what a mod post says because you're using a light theme and the color of the text is light, or a dark them with a dark color, just highlight it. If I want big and flashy yo'll get a picture of Disapointed Gendo or Upset Nui.

 

The purpose is not 'flashy'. The purpose is 'readable'. The added color was solely because you guys already do 'flashy' with the mod colors, so I left it viable as a border color. Though I'll admit to a little indulgence with the warning symbol.

For the very simplest definition, there's something like this:

Stop doing that.

Code:

[xtable=bcolor:#210|100%x@]{tbody}{tr}
{td}[color=#ddd]Stop doing that.[/color]{/td}
{/tr}{/tbody}[/xtable]

 

There's also the modboxes like SV has. Those do *wave* all of that in a single BB code, and a bit more to boot.

Of course, it's an addon, which means "is it in the budget?" becomes relevant. If it's a reasonably small one-time cost, I'm tempted to offer to spring for it myself, but I don't know if it's a one-time cost and I don't know where to look to figure that out.