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**I dunno, I think the reason people use userboxes over plain text is the same reason they should be more regulated than plain text; and it's not just that userboxes are easier to see. People see them as badges of honor, as colorful uniform insignias that announce their rightful membership in something, and to declare their camaraderie with those who share their interests/POVs. Whether you're saying something offensive or not, plain text just can't be compared. <small style="font:bold 10px Arial;display:inline;border:#009 1px dashed;padding:1px 6px 2px 7px;white-space:nowrap">[[User:Equazcion|<font color="#000">Equazcion</font>]] [[User talk:equazcion|•''✗'']]/[[Special:Contributions/Equazcion|''C'' •]] ''04:17, 21 Jan 2008 (UTC)''</small>
***Badges of honour? When did they stop being standardised [[bumper sticker]]s? : ) - [[User:Jc37|jc37]] 10:44, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
***Badges of honor or bumper stickers, userboxes have too often gotten in the way of building an encyclopedia. I understand at least part of what's going on. When I was a new editor, I spent way too much time editing my user page. I rolled some of my own userboxes (this was back before the userbox project existed). I dumped most of those userboxes two years ago (keeping just the project memebership boxes) when I saw that some editors were putting far too much emphasis on their userbox displays, to the detriment of the project. I had hoped that the "German userbox solution" would be an improvement, and it has in part, but there are still editors who want to shove controversy in everyone's face with provocative userboxes. I'm not bothered by an editor's proclamation of belief in the great spaghetti monster; such userboxes may be silly and unproductive, but they can be funny and we do cut established editors some slack. It is the taunting userboxes and the editors who devote more energy to decorating their user pages than they do to contributing to the encyclopedia that are ruining it for everyone. -- '''<font color="navy">[[User talk:Dalbury|Donald Albury]]</font>''' 12:15, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
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