Approved Make /report red

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With some notifications featuring new colored text now I noticed that one of the more important features on Skial servers is often overlooked by players on servers. A lot of reports seem to go unnoticed because the text is white like the rest of the chat. It can easily blend in with normal chat text and get lost with people spamming "MEDIC!" & etc.

Red text will alert players on the server to the possible troublemakers and help them pass reports that should be passed.

Here you can see all the reports that people attempt that don't actually make it to the forums:
http://stats.skial.com/stats/hlstats.php?mode=chat&game=tf&server_id=0&filter=report

I check this sometimes and investigate failed reports if they are only a few minutes old, I have banned a few hackers this way. The report never made it to the forums however and they would have just continued hacking. Also a lot of people just assume that all they need to do is /report and it will go through, they don't realize people need to !votereport for it to pass. Even with hacking reports that pass if you look in the chat log they are often the 2nd or 3rd time the same report was made because nobody noticed or did !votereport the first time.
 
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I wouldnt say red because that can sometimes be hard to read(especially for color blind people like myself). But a different color, yeah.
 
I thought the same the other day, but didn't think about making it a suggestion.
I highly support this. It's impossible to get people to vote for your report if it's white and that a lot of people are active, +allofmyones
 
hXcjedders said:
I wouldnt say red because that can sometimes be hard to read(especially for color blind people like myself). But a different color, yeah.
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I thought all color blind people are different ex: one color blind person might be able to see red fine but not green, while you have a hard time seeing red but can see the other colors fine
 
Red text is easy to read with the plugin and the universal color for important/urgent.
 
Maddo said:
What text is white? I only see green and purple.
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The report text itself, this is what I mean:
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The way it is now is easy to miss. Usually someone has to say "hey guys I'm making a report so type !votereport when I write it"

This is how red would look:
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And maybe have "!votereport" in a different color too so people know it's the command to agree with a report.
 
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So, I tried to quote mittens saying we should make the text red, and then I was trying to find a good YouTube video of a guy going, "Oooooohhhhhh!" in a scared tone.

Fucking internet.
 
Interrogator said:
I thought all color blind people are different ex: one color blind person might be able to see red fine but not green, while you have a hard time seeing red but can see the other colors fine
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Most people with color deficiencies end up with a red-green problem. Something like 80%. Then next follows the people with blue-yellow, and finally the full colorblind people.

mittens said:
The report text itself, this is what I mean:
74e8d5baee6d70da8830118583234c0e.png

The way it is now is easy to miss. Usually someone has to say "hey guys I'm making a report so type !votereport when I write it"

This is how red would look:
0be19fb8fe67634b52fc2c9f32cbebb6.png

And maybe have "!votereport" in a different color too so people know it's the command to agree with a report.
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That red works fine for me against lighter backgrounds but I am not sure if I could see against darker ones. Not saying it would be a problem to maneuver the camera to a different background color, but I am just stating a fact for consideration.
 
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