Originally Posted by
Loony BoB ^ I'd rather be able to read a post than know who it was by, personally.
Really, if you make profile options for custom font formatting, then it shouldn't be very difficult to add a profile option that disables custom font formatting automatically for anyone who doesn't want to see it. That way people who don't want to see custom formatting don't have to, and people who don't want to have to type in custom formatting every post don't have to. Plus they can specify different colours for different styles. It's win-win, really.
not to mention, back when eoff had this in the past was what, well over seven years ago? I'd like to think technology has improved to the point where it wouldn't really add that much lag to the forum. vBulletin alone is way more complex than it used to be, so proportionally, it shouldn't really add that much more code.