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Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Sat, 22 Apr 2000 16:09:05 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> It's subtle, but it's like that on purpose so that, basically, the more
> red you see, the more your eye is drawn to it.  (Red, biologically, has
> the strongest draw of all colors, for non-colorblind humans.)

I think you should take colorblindness into consideration:
LUGNET is predominantly male, and 1 in 5 males is colorblind.
At a glance, I can't tell red text from black, which is why I suggested you
change the background color:
http://www.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=6385
The more there is of a color, the more likely I'll notice.
On the other hand, I think the change in font weight for the first post in a
thread works very well.  I don't know how well browsers and humans detect
gradual changes in font weight, but I do know that it is possible to vary the
weight using CSS...
Just my .02
--Bram



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  Colorblindness (was: Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria)
 
(...) Hmm, doesn't it now? That's why it uses shades of one color (red) rather than two colors (red & green, or red & blue, for example). (...) Well, it seems that way, but it's not necessarily so. I believe it to be probably correct, but note that (...) (27 years ago, 22-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Creating Lugent Rating Criteria
 
(...) There are two ways, currently -- but they're designed to work without getting in the way (rather than to be obvious). First way: If two people like a message a lot (and, say, each mark it 100), then it has a lower composite score than, say, (...) (27 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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