Could the [!]s be silver and underlined like the keywords?

March 2, 2005 5:15 PM

Could the [!]s be silver and underlined like the keywords? They yank my eye from the last sentence of every, frickin', comment.
posted by nicwolff to Feature Requests at 5:15 PM (25 comments total)

Maybe it's just me, but I think they make detail pages harder to read. Not that they don't represent terrific added functionality!
posted by nicwolff at 5:18 PM on March 2, 2005

ah, good point. I have other text there after the timestamp, so I didn't notice this detracting from the text there. Lemme fix it.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:20 PM on March 2, 2005

Wow. That was fast.
posted by xammerboy at 5:24 PM on March 2, 2005

This has been a visual bother for me since day one, and I am angrily demanding that something be done—what? Oh. Awesome.
posted by DrJohnEvans at 5:28 PM on March 2, 2005

I didn't fix it yet.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:30 PM on March 2, 2005

Ok, should be fixed now.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:59 PM on March 2, 2005

Oh, better!
posted by obloquy at 6:06 PM on March 2, 2005

This had been bothering me too since it's inception. Thanks Matt!
posted by rooftop secrets at 6:14 PM on March 2, 2005

Oh, SO much better. Thanks Nic and Matt.
posted by CunningLinguist at 6:17 PM on March 2, 2005

Wonderful, wonderful. Thank you!
posted by DrJohnEvans at 6:50 PM on March 2, 2005

Ok, I may be crazy but what's changed? We're talking about the ! flag this comment link, right? It's looks exactly the same to me.

How odd, on preview, [!] has disappeared for me completely. I'm going to check my meds, I'll brb.
posted by Jim Jones at 7:06 PM on March 2, 2005

The exclamation point is now gray instead of yellow, Jim Jones. Also, it disappears during the posting/preview process.

Thanks, Matt. It's much better, esp. if minimizing lame call-outs is one of your goals.
posted by mediareport at 7:13 PM on March 2, 2005

Blends in nicely.
posted by tracicle at 7:15 PM on March 2, 2005

Yay, MeFi is perfect again. Thanks!
posted by nicwolff at 7:16 PM on March 2, 2005

Thanks mediareport. Wow, I guess I never really noticed it was yellow. Odd.
posted by Jim Jones at 7:27 PM on March 2, 2005

Um, it's still yellow in the blue....
posted by CunningLinguist at 7:33 PM on March 2, 2005

Word is bond, nic. Thank you for pointing it out. Please fix it in all three flavors.
posted by squirrel at 8:02 PM on March 2, 2005

what about this - [ ! ] , with an added space before and after the "!".
posted by jonah at 8:29 PM on March 2, 2005

Lovely. Thank you!
posted by cmyk at 8:37 PM on March 2, 2005

Actually, could you put the <a> around all three [!] characters? Now that the whole thing is a single color, I think it should act like a single object.
posted by majick at 9:11 PM on March 2, 2005

It's not a single color though, the brackets are white.
posted by abcde at 9:26 PM on March 2, 2005

Er, I don't know where that came from. Ignore me.
posted by abcde at 12:07 AM on March 3, 2005

I have other text there after the timestamp...

Ooh, that's piqued my interest. Are we allowed to know what? The mind boggles!
posted by nthdegx at 5:05 AM on March 3, 2005

nthdegx, it's probably personal comments about the poster. Like -

posted by quonsar at 10:15 AM PST on March 4 Banned 15 times still pain in ass [!]
posted by graventy at 12:44 PM on March 3, 2005

majick: You are thinking of [?], and no, a mushroom will not come out if you hit it.
posted by Eideteker at 7:59 PM on March 3, 2005