You could always stop your servers, uninstall TF2 and stop complaining. And if you think that plugin authors are going to go overboard adding "stupid colors" then it's a pretty damned good thing that 99.8% of plugins are *open source* isn't it?
But since you're obviously such a skilled programmer, you should have already known that I should think. On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:31 AM, dan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/05/2012 06:12, DarthNinja wrote: > >> Or you could just Not Play on servers that do Dumb Shit with chat colours >> and let server popularity do it's thing. >> > > I could but it's not really game changing and so doing that would just > reduce the number of servers where you might get a decent game from time to > time. > > A lot of plugins are already too noisy so current evidence suggests this > doesn't discourage their use. > > Coloured chat is like trade pop ups or mic spam or sprays - there are no > good uses for them - the easiest thing is a client option that disables > them. > > Remembering the old adage "programmers who can't program write plugins", > the sap admin who wants an otherwise reasonable plugin to provide > functionality has to put up with the plugin authors bad taste if he adds > colours to the output it produces. > > -- > Dan. > > > ______________________________**_________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.**com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/**hlds_linux<https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
