Posting in green?

[Worldwalker]

TGS, have you taken to following me around in order to try to give me a hard time about things?

No, recluse, I was not referring to your signature. I was referring to someone's entire posts, which were borderline unreadable. As I said, I'm pretty sure it wasn't this board, because I don't think anyone here is so tasteless as to post an entire post in MS Comic Sans. Bold. Possibly italic (it's hard to tell with Comic Sans). And pale green.

As for why I said that kind of post (and related ways of drawing attention to one's posts or self) was "self-aggrandizing", it's simple: the overwhelming majority of people on any forum (especially MR) think their words are worth reading, just as much or as little as anyone else's words. They think if they have something important to say, people will read it. Occasionally you get someone who doesn't think they should let their words speak for them, like every other poster, and instead finds some way to call extra attention to their posts. They know everyone else isn't doing it, but they need more attention than other posters because they're special. Being an ordinary poster isn't good enough for them; they have to stand out.

When someone doesn't believe in the worth of their own words, I'm inclined to agree with them. If they think their words aren't good enough to speak for them, they're probably right. So instead of giving them the special attention they want, I generally just skip over their posts; they're advertising that they're not worth my time.

And again, MobileRead does not often have this type of poster. I'm grateful for that, as is, I suspect, anyone with eyes. For some reason, that style is a favorite of tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists and the kind of person you just know drew little hearts all over her papers in school. Come to think of it, neither one generally has anything to say that's worth reading, which may explain why they want to draw attention to their unconventional formatting instead.

As for the whole signature thing, I figure it's more important that everyone can read my .sig than having it look good to me. Admittedly, mine is deadly dull. One quote, and it's not even famous. One link, so I don't have to keep explaining something. Neither one, I suspect, of much interest to most people. But if they're interested, there's no barriers to reading them. I won't sacrifice function for form; as they say, that's how I roll.

[TGS]

Originally Posted by Worldwalker

TGS, have you taken to following me around in order to try to give me a hard time about things?

Not at all. My only objection was that you characterized the practice of using odd fonts and colours as self-aggrandizing. To do so suggests you have some insight into why posters do these things - what their motivations and objectives are, what they get out of it - which I don't think you have.

Such posts piss you off - fair enough, they piss me off too. But my pissed offness doesn't warrant inferring anything about the character and motivations of the people making the posts is all.

[nohmi2]

Originally Posted by Worldwalker

TGS, have you taken to following me around in order to try to give me a hard time about things?

No, recluse, I was not referring to your signature. I was referring to someone's entire posts, which were borderline unreadable. As I said, I'm pretty sure it wasn't this board, because I don't think anyone here is so tasteless as to post an entire post in MS Comic Sans. Bold. Possibly italic (it's hard to tell with Comic Sans). And pale green.

As for why I said that kind of post (and related ways of drawing attention to one's posts or self) was "self-aggrandizing", it's simple: the overwhelming majority of people on any forum (especially MR) think their words are worth reading, just as much or as little as anyone else's words. They think if they have something important to say, people will read it. Occasionally you get someone who doesn't think they should let their words speak for them, like every other poster, and instead finds some way to call extra attention to their posts. They know everyone else isn't doing it, but they need more attention than other posters because they're special. Being an ordinary poster isn't good enough for them; they have to stand out.

When someone doesn't believe in the worth of their own words, I'm inclined to agree with them. If they think their words aren't good enough to speak for them, they're probably right. So instead of giving them the special attention they want, I generally just skip over their posts; they're advertising that they're not worth my time.

And again, MobileRead does not often have this type of poster. I'm grateful for that, as is, I suspect, anyone with eyes. For some reason, that style is a favorite of tinfoil-hat conspiracy theorists and the kind of person you just know drew little hearts all over her papers in school. Come to think of it, neither one generally has anything to say that's worth reading, which may explain why they want to draw attention to their unconventional formatting instead.

As for the whole signature thing, I figure it's more important that everyone can read my .sig than having it look good to me. Admittedly, mine is deadly dull. One quote, and it's not even famous. One link, so I don't have to keep explaining something. Neither one, I suspect, of much interest to most people. But if they're interested, there's no barriers to reading them. I won't sacrifice function for form; as they say, that's how I roll.

Somewhat sexist, wouldn't you agree?

The male of the species is also inclined to the "Look at me. Look at me!!" type of behavour, wouldn't you agree?

Cheers.

[Worldwalker]

Originally Posted by nohmi2

Somewhat sexist, wouldn't you agree?

The male of the species is also inclined to the "Look at me. Look at me!!" type of behavour, wouldn't you agree?

Um ... no?

I can't see how it's sexist, no can I see how it's specific to males, so I can't agree in either way.

[Alexander Turcic]

I think this thread has served its purpose. Let's close it.

We have taken note that the use of green text for moderator notices is not adequate since it's not restricted to mods only. Therefore we changed the notice appearance to something more obvious, which I hope is easy to recognize and friendly to the eye. ;p