The main aspect of a forum is the posts people make. The text is the selling point of a forum.
However, people sometimes feel the need to "decorate" their posts with colours, smileys, pictures or unresonable fonts and font sizes, which serve no purpose but to make the post harder to decipher. I would propose a number of optional limitations that an owner or admin can put in place to ensure that the post is always readable.
The first option that would be nice would be to disallow HTML formatting in posts. The bold and italics buttons that are by default on the create a post interface are enough to make a point, in my opinion.
Secondly, having the option to disallow smileys, I would like. If this seems too tyrannical, it might be nice to at least have the option to change the smileys, to fit better with a customised forum theme.
Thirdly, and lastly, I would like the option to place similar limitations pn signatures. Ideally, I would like to entirely disallow images in signatures, as all that is really needed in signatures is a name, perhaps a tagline and a link to a website, at the most. Anything more is unnecessary and gets in the way of the post text.
Thank you, and sorry if my proposals seem too tyrannical, I just hope to achieve a more formal looking forum.
