I understand the point. Yes, i know that sometimes what characters are communicating with can change. Yes I know about the IC/OOC divide.
I just think the courier convention is stupid because (1) courier looks more like a typewriter's text than computer text so it doesn't convey the right thing anyway, (2) us, the players, are writing in text anyway, so why differentiate when the characters are writing in text and not when they're doing audio and video? shouldn't the characters writing in text be the default? (3)courier is an ugly font (and tt is even worse) (4) typing out that html is more of a pain, to me, than paying attention to whether a mun put "text" or "audio" or "mating dance" in the subject line.
Back in my day we put "Text" in the subject line and paid attention to what the other characters were using and kept it in mind because we had enough brain cells to remember what the other character was using without html tags (that could possibly break) and ugly fonts.
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I just think the courier convention is stupid because (1) courier looks more like a typewriter's text than computer text so it doesn't convey the right thing anyway, (2) us, the players, are writing in text anyway, so why differentiate when the characters are writing in text and not when they're doing audio and video? shouldn't the characters writing in text be the default? (3)courier is an ugly font (and tt is even worse) (4) typing out that html is more of a pain, to me, than paying attention to whether a mun put "text" or "audio" or "mating dance" in the subject line.
Back in my day we put "Text" in the subject line and paid attention to what the other characters were using and kept it in mind because we had enough brain cells to remember what the other character was using without html tags (that could possibly break) and ugly fonts.