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Title: Whatever happened to the [glow] tag?
Post by: Phil Boswell on May 16, 2007, 08:24:25 PM
This used to work fine:
You mean like this?

That used to be 24point text, glowing red.

What happened? The manual here (http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=735) says it should still work.
Title: Re: Whatever happened to the [glow] tag?
Post by: iago on May 16, 2007, 08:54:50 PM
It was a garish eyesore.  I turned it off.

:)
Title: Re: Whatever happened to the [glow] tag?
Post by: jtaylor on May 16, 2007, 09:11:49 PM
Now, now, Iago. Don't sugar-coat it, tells us how you really feel. ;)
Title: Re: Whatever happened to the [glow] tag?
Post by: Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon) on May 16, 2007, 09:13:12 PM
It was a garish eyesore.  I turned it off.

:)

I'm rather glad you did. Everytime I saw it, I had a nightmare vision of the day the fangurlz find this board and over-run it with squee-over-Paul-Blackthorne/Terence Mann-posts. Kidz like this tend to have fetishes for any and everything to make their posts look more TEH SPESHUL, up to and including over-use of font colors/glow tags/and especially that tag that makes your typing sparkle like glitter.
Title: Re: Whatever happened to the [glow] tag?
Post by: iago on May 16, 2007, 09:19:51 PM
I hear you.  I turned off most of the "extraneous" tags that I didn't think were offering much in the way of real value.  I even contemplated ditching the color tag or figuring out how to lock it down as admin-only, but that latter bit proved too hard, so I decided for the moment that so long as folks use it judiciously it's not all bad. :)
Title: Re: Whatever happened to the [glow] tag?
Post by: Slife on May 31, 2007, 01:46:39 AM
Could you turn the size tag back on as well?
Title: Re: Whatever happened to the [glow] tag?
Post by: iago on May 31, 2007, 03:04:14 AM
No. :)
Title: Re: Whatever happened to the [glow] tag?
Post by: JRBobC on May 31, 2007, 03:09:36 AM
Could you turn the size tag back on as well?
No. :)

I can get behind that.  I can see someone being obnoxious and posting a rather fowl message in 100 pitch font.  It would be just mildly annoying.
Title: Re: Whatever happened to the [glow] tag?
Post by: Matrix Refugee (formerly Morraeon) on May 31, 2007, 03:11:18 AM
I can get behind that.  I can see someone being obnoxious and posting a rather fowl message in 100 pitch font.  It would be just mildly annoying.

Mm, idiots on the Matrix Online forums like to do that and it gets really maddening.