Okay, here’s my suggestion. Any single post be restricted to the following:
1. A single font (preferably from a limited list).
2. No more than two font colors (with an exception for blue hyperlinks).
3. No more than two font sizes and nothing larger than 16 pts.
Boldface, italics, underlining, etc. are fine.
What a relief that would be.
That’s a good idea, but I think stylistic methods allow many to scroll past without being forced to scan some purely combative rant.
I like being able to do that.
Some are just not worth the time it takes to read the post.
I don't like your suggestions. If implemented, it would reduce my ability to readily tell when a post is worthless, full of assertions with no rational, coherent, intelligent argument, or even, just plain demonic in content. I'd actually have to read two or three words before figuring out that a post was the stuff of landfills.
But now, this sort of formatting makes it easier and faster to scroll right through the worst posts on all of FR. It's almost as good as an "ignore" button, as it permits me to readily ignore some of the raw sewage posted herein.
In fact, it would improve the forum even more if an entire list of posters who regularly spew forth sewage were required to post in this way. But one shouldn't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
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