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

Hey there.

I was looking at a thread and noticed that a moderator was asking users to repeatedly get back on topic, but was being ignored and after a while, the thread was closed. This got me thinking and I looked through some other closed topics and noticed similar issues whereby mod posts seemed to be getting ignored by the member base.

So I came up with an idea: why don't we put in some code that places a "background colour" on all moderator posts? And if this works for mods, should this get extended to sysops?

The colour would be a very light blue so that it's not blatantly obvious, but not so light that the highlight has no meaning. In my local copy of the code, I made some tweaks to have an exclusions list, whereby the highlights have no effect in specified boards, which could be useful for preventing over-highlighting of posts in areas that they don't need to be highlighted.

Below are two screenshots of two methods we could use to highlight posts:
 * A coloured background on moderator/sysop posts: Click Me!
 * A coloured border around moderator/sysop posts: Click Me!

Discuss below. :) 