by Acsama March 2nd 2012, 6:35 am
Well, once you allow HTML in the forum, why setting it off by default? It is against common sense. It is okay until the point you can switch them OFF by yourself, but to set it to OFF by default is quite an annoying feature. Moreover it is also odd that for guests it is visible, but once you sign in, they won't be, as by default the visibility is turned off. And if there are others like me, they won't even know why. Your forums are the only place where I met this solution. That once you log on, only if HTML is allowed in your profile, you can use it and see it. This way a useful feature becomes useless. And all because of the lack of a simple solution that you simply cannot define to have it on by default. I think it is a quite simple and logical feature that is missing from your forums.
And there is an other annoying thing that if there is a member who doesn't know like me that in the profile you have to turn on the visibility, he posts a message, tick the "HTML allowed" option under the message box when posting, yet, no visible HTML. And as a result every of them crying to me in the forum and sending PMs about why the feature doesn't work.
So until you have the option to turn this thing on and off, there is no problem. The problem comes with that there are inconsistencies in your system: if you allow them, why are they OFF by default, and if you can allow it under the message box when starting a thread or posting, why isn't it enough to turn it on there? This is messing up things very much.