No more colored texts

[Morell]

Yeah, why would you ever want to do this?

Look, i think we've all wanted to go out into the woods and tame a pack of wolves to do our bidding but it's hard enough trying to tame even one, why on earth would you ever think that trying to tame a whole pack - while being mentally fragile, mind you (no shade, just the nature of trauma) - is at all a reasonable idea to pursue????

i am in no way any expert in spirits and more, but i have a lot of respect for them, even ones i might perceive as negative, or "evil". I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT YOU DON'T!!!!

that being said.... if you simply must.... please share your results with us, it'd be like the journal equivalent of supernatural Live Leak.

What are you saying there? I can't read that, that blue is very dark, almost no contrast to the background.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

The lighter blue is better, but the whole thing still gives off "I want to be special!" which you have specifically said you were not aiming for.

 

[SkullTraill]

The lighter blue is better, but the whole thing still gives off "I want to be special!" which you have specifically said you were not aiming for.

It's the colouring different words/phrases with different colours for emphasis or whatever that really ticks me off.

If it was just one colour for the whole post like @HelenaHex does it then I don't think I would mind as much... but the weird attention seeking, multi coloured NLP-like formatting is giving off... vibes...

 

[tetradicTendencies]

had to look up what NLP even was but fair points all the same
i feel like some people here seem unexpectedly judgemental - i won't make any assumptions as to why but it's just not what i noticed while lurking around the website before i made an account, i didn't think i'd rub so many people the wrong way

no shade, but why do you guys think it's so irksome, even?

 

[Morell]

I'm surprised myself, that I'm not alone in this point.

I don't like style of HelenaHex either, though she writes posts of impresive quality, at elast.

Still, in my opinion, when person colors the text, it gives vibe of person being either a kid or an adult who internaly never grew up. Even worse for forum filled with colored posts as if you were in kidnegarden. Not worth attention of one who seeks high quality discussion with adults.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

no shade, but why do you guys think it's so irksome, even?

Maybe it's the way my eyes snap a yard back into my head after reading one of your posts.

 

[SkullTraill]

had to look up what NLP even was but fair points all the same
i feel like some people here seem unexpectedly judgemental - i won't make any assumptions as to why but it's just not what i noticed while lurking around the website before i made an account, i didn't think i'd rub so many people the wrong way

no shade, but why do you guys think it's so irksome, even?

Firstly, did you see anyone else typing in multicolored text on WF before you joined? Maybe that’s why you didn’t notice anyone being judgmental about that.

WF is mostly pretty friendly and welcoming. And I do what I can to make sure that we don’t get too elitist, cliquey or cult-like. That being said there are many people who take WF seriously as one of the only remaining open and free communities for proper occult discussion, and as such they enjoy uniformity and consistency.

Yes, you can be yourself on WF… but WF is NOT really the best place to EXPRESS yourself, at least artistically or personality wise. We don’t care about personalities, genders, religions etc. we care about occultism and discussing it.

Think of WF as more of something like a parliament, senate, Greek forum etc and less as a cool hipster cafe in New York.

Whatever your opinion is about the occult, you can share it. You can share your own thoughts and ideas as “different” as they may be. However we don’t particularly care for anyone’s unique quirky little personality or other non-occult individuality.

I hope this makes sense.

However, I have decided not to implement a site wide rule as of now regarding post formatting because I traditionally try to minimize the amount of subjective/opinion/taste based rules on this website. I don’t add or remove rules lightly, so I don’t want to add something that is difficult to objectively measure. At what point is too much formatting too much etc.

@tetradicTendencies I don’t really respect or accept your justification either. If you have issues with your eyes or any other accessibility concern then it’s simply more effective to use browser extensions or computer tools to assist with accessibility on your whole machine/computer experience. You using your own colors just for your own posts is not a sound, logical reason.

My advice for you is to simply use a browser extension that modifies contrast across all pages and sites to your liking. Or at the very least as @ghoulish suggested, write your posts using a dedicated writing tool and then copy past into WF or something like that.

I’m not going to make a rule or stop you right at this moment, but you bet your ass when I figure out how to word it objectively enough to make it a rule, I will. Because honestly everyone else is kind of right too. What you’re doing isn’t against the rules and as you said it is a functionality afforded to you, but it really is obnoxious both in terms of standing out/attention seeking and also future accessibility concerns for other members not being able to read your posts.

 

[ghoulish]

yep, and did you read what i was responding to? i wasn't likening my formatting choices to art, i was having a philosophical tangent because i felt that Morell was erroneously attempting to use her "authority" as an artist to make a decision based on her own philosophical opinion on art and how it presumably ought to be.
i even made this known with my summary there

I did read it. This is what you wrote that in response to:

I'm an artist myself and honestly, the way of art that makes things harder for other people is art I do not respect.

That, as is the rest of the thread, is written with the context of your formatting choices being the topic of discussion (as they are an aesthetic, and therefore artistic, decision). "harder for people" in this context means harder to read or engage with. Sure, everyone has different philosophies regarding art, but that's not what is being discussed here. By going on that tangent in this specific thread, it looked like you were defending your inaccessible formatting choice by putting it on the same level as broader challenging/uncomfortable/painful art, which is what I was responding to.

Also, typically people pull the "I'm an artist" card as a shorthand way of expressing that they have a somewhat more developed understanding of color/composition/etc than the average person (which I believe all three of us did).