Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20160614141442/@comment-1251315-20160614164632

Seelentau wrote: In general, the idea is nice, but the example given is too much, imo. Especially since mods take part in dicussions as much as other users, so there would be much highlighting. There isn't any way to add a button whereby a mod makes the post he is making "highlighted", it's all the posts or no posts. I wasn't too sure if we'd need "sysop" highlights, so I went with just mods and added a little functionality for sysops if sysops wanted their posts highlighted. There's an exclusion list available so highlights don't have effect in certain boards: Announcements and the Consensus Track boards are where I'd expect to exclude highlighting, since that isn't really necessary. Of course, it could be possible to make it that only sysop posts get highlighted in Announcements/CT and mod posts are highlighted elsewhere.

I modelled this idea off a company forum which has all their staff posts "boxed" with an orange border, which appears on all of their posts regardless of the post's location or even if it's an "official statement". We could go with a coloured border instead, which would be more subtle than complete background highlighting, if people feel that the background would become "excessive" in some discussions.

I don't plan on making this script available on Dev Wiki, so it would be something unique to this wiki, so as a result, it can be customised however necessary, so if the idea in this post works, I can easily include something like that.