Or use <font color="#EFF0FF"> to get their favorite off-white shade.

Unne's right--it would require hacking the .php files. A couple of minor hacks like that wouldn't result in much of a slowdown in the board, but once we start adding in little things like that, as soon as we try to stop, it'll raise a ruckus.

We used to have a thoroughly hacked board (Gender colors, post headers, etc.), courtesy of Acmlm's skills. Cid replaced it with a plain, unhacked vBulletin, and it sped up 300%. For that reason, I don't want to add a hack unnecesarily.

(oh, yeah: The recognized member thing didn't require a hack--We just expanded the Cid's Knight/Admin hack, leaving something that was still too small to affect board performance.)