Moderator Warning Icons

leninbenjamin

I've seen suggestions similar to this made a while back, but i don't think there's harm in bringing it up again?

Frequently i see moderators resorting to caps or use of bold font to make their in thread warnings more noticeable. So what I'm suggesting here is a feature to make moderator warnings more visible.

Essentially all I'm suggesting is that moderators are given an additional check box to their post reply UI. clicking it would do something along the lines of indenting the body of their post by another 100pixels or so and place a big red warning sign to the right of their avatar, (and perhaps insert an Automatic post title along the lines of 'General Conduct Warning' in bigger, and perhaps red font or something like that?). I think it would make in thread warnings more visible and put an end to the useless excuses of 'I didn't know he/she was a moderator' we see crop up. I can't see it being too much of a headache to implement? a toggled left floating Div to the body of the post?

Random

Someone suggested something similiar before. Something along the lines of the QUOTE function but that would put a yellow box around your post or something .. sorta along the lines of "this is an official message from the moderator" etc .. to help people distinguish from a mod just getting involved in the banter and actually being serious.

Good idea though.