What are your favorite colors to put moderators/admins in? Obviously, you want them to stand out in some way, to show that they're staff. I prefer bolder colors, like blue and red. What about you? What are your favorite colors to use?
I think the most common colours that are used for Administrators and Moderators are red and green. That's great and all, but that combination tends to get boring after a while.
I tend to use different colours like various shades of purple and blue, since they stand out and imo look better than red and green. 😛
I've always followed the FP conventions. Not sure why. 😛
Blue = Admin
Green = Moderator
Red = Don't typically use this one
Purple = Other staff (reviewer, etc.)
I definitely will always use green for moderator. When I was a moderator on the RuneScape Official Forums, our posts were colored solid green. So, I guess it's wired into me somewhere: Green = Moderator. 😛
I use dark green for admins and light blue for moderators (a bit like the RA colour here). I have changed it a couple times over the years though. For a few months moderators were yellow.
I think the color thing is a bit of a habit thing too. Humans are creatures of habit and I believe people would be put off from using a forum where the staff colors go against the "Norm", so Admins are usually blue or red and moderators green, purely due to this
On one forum that I adminned, but didn't own.. It was a somewhat darkish theme with the admins having a gold colour.
My admin colour on The AtomBB Forums is actually just about every colour, due to the multi-colour system which makes it incredibly obvious that I'm staff, although it uses a normal colour (red, I believe) when I turn that off for the admin group.
Here's one of my old posts from back when I was a forum mod. They use weird software, and one of the features is that an old post made as a moderator still says "Moderator" even after you've left the team. Interesting side effect: it won't let me edit my old posts from back when I was a mod. 😛
Not too bad of a hue, although it used to be worse before they updated the style. :lol:
The admins had gold posts. 😛 I guess this kind of thing makes sense on a really, really large support forum, though. The RuneScape Forums is actually the second largest forum online by post count, at least as of 2012.