What do you like on your road-related forum?

[Takumi]

• People who hate Clearview

Didn't we get a decrease in people that really hate clearview here? I saw some posts back in 2012, and the clearview hate seemed to be more prominent back than now.

It's interesting that the more research and evidence there is that Clearview is inferior, or at least not superior to the standard fonts, the more members of this forum like it or accept it, for whatever reason.

The evidence has convinced me that Clearview should not be approved for use on road signs.

I, for one, am very anti-Clearview, but have come to accept that it's just not going away.

[JoePCool14]

• People who hate Clearview

Didn't we get a decrease in people that really hate clearview here? I saw some posts back in 2012, and the clearview hate seemed to be more prominent back than now.

It's interesting that the more research and evidence there is that Clearview is inferior, or at least not superior to the standard fonts, the more members of this forum like it or accept it, for whatever reason.

The evidence has convinced me that Clearview should not be approved for use on road signs.

I, for one, am very anti-Clearview, but have come to accept that it's just not going away.

True, but after the FHWA rescinded the interim approval the first time, several Clearview states moved away from it. Notable examples include Arizona, Ohio, and Illinois. So even though some states still use it religiously (Texas and Michigan), I feel like it's already less common than it once was. This could always change again though.

[Takumi]

• People who hate Clearview

Didn't we get a decrease in people that really hate clearview here? I saw some posts back in 2012, and the clearview hate seemed to be more prominent back than now.

It's interesting that the more research and evidence there is that Clearview is inferior, or at least not superior to the standard fonts, the more members of this forum like it or accept it, for whatever reason.

The evidence has convinced me that Clearview should not be approved for use on road signs.

I, for one, am very anti-Clearview, but have come to accept that it's just not going away.

True, but after the FHWA rescinded the interim approval the first time, several Clearview states moved away from it. Notable examples include Arizona, Ohio, and Illinois. So even though some states still use it religiously (Texas and Michigan), I feel like it's already less common than it once was. This could always change again though.

Virginia started using it again as soon as it was available again.

[SSOWorld]

What do I like on my road related forum?

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[Scott5114]

I think it's probably mostly because the people who don't like it know their side has effectively "won". When it doesn't seem to be the big change coming down the pipe anymore, there's less of a need for you to point out how much it sucks. FHWA does that for you now.

[Rothman]

I think it's probably mostly because the people who don't like it know their side has effectively "won". When it doesn't seem to be the big change coming down the pipe anymore, there's less of a need for you to point out how much it sucks. FHWA does that for you now.

Wut.

[Roadgeekteen]

I think it's probably mostly because the people who don't like it know their side has effectively "won". When it doesn't seem to be the big change coming down the pipe anymore, there's less of a need for you to point out how much it sucks. FHWA does that for you now.

Wut.

Isn't Clearview getting phased out?

[SkyPesos]

I think it's probably mostly because the people who don't like it know their side has effectively "won". When it doesn't seem to be the big change coming down the pipe anymore, there's less of a need for you to point out how much it sucks. FHWA does that for you now.

Wut.

Isn't Clearview getting phased out?

Not in Michigan to start off.
Though their signs actually look good in Clearview.

[Angelo71]

I think it's probably mostly because the people who don't like it know their side has effectively "won". When it doesn't seem to be the big change coming down the pipe anymore, there's less of a need for you to point out how much it sucks. FHWA does that for you now.

Wut.

Isn't Clearview getting phased out?

Not in Michigan to start off.
Though their signs actually look good in Clearview.

Clearview and button copy are gross and they look like they are from the 60s.

[hotdogPi]

Every time Angelo71 calls something gross, think of it as groß.

[GaryV]

What do I like on my road related forum?

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[formulanone]

More garbage confined to their own threads.

Less overly-granular discussion for the sake of creating a nearly identical thread 24 hours after the last one was created.

Electroshock therapy for those who constantly quote giant blocks of text to discuss one sentence with three or four words.

[webny99]

Electroshock therapy for those who constantly quote giant blocks of text to discuss one sentence with three or four words.

Or maybe just a training course on how to trim quotes down. But yes.   

[hotdogPi]

For the staff: is there a way to warn someone with at least six instances of opening quote tags or an unequal number of opening and closing tags? (Similar to the "new reply" and "120 days" warnings.)

[webny99]

For the staff: is there a way to warn someone with (1) at least six instances of opening quote tags or (2) an unequal number of opening and closing tags? (Similar to the "new reply" and "120 days" warnings.)

I misread this at first until I realized you were actually suggesting two separate warnings. I'm in favor of both of these warnings, if possible. This would help cut down on the massive quote strings and misattributed quotes.

It wouldn't solve people typing in the middle of what they're quoting, but maybe there could be a warning for that as well, something like: "You added text to an existing quote!" (Of course, this would also come up in cases where it was intentional, like the (1) and (2) that I just added to this quote.)

[SSOWorld]

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Get your hot buttered popcorn!

Get it while its hot

Get it while it's buttered!!!!

[JoePCool14]

Electroshock therapy for those who constantly quote giant blocks of text to discuss one sentence with three or four words.

Or maybe just a training course on how to trim quotes down. But yes.   

The longer the quote...

What do I like on my road related forum?

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"What do you like on your ex?"

[Scott5114]

For the staff: is there a way to warn someone with at least six instances of opening quote tags or an unequal number of opening and closing tags? (Similar to the "new reply" and "120 days" warnings.)

Not something the forum software allows us to do.

Some other forum software packages actually start automatically deleting more than one or two levels of quote.

I'm just glad that people actually quote instead of just spewing their thoughts out and expect you to do the work to understand what they're referring to.

[SSOWorld]

Electroshock therapy for those who constantly quote giant blocks of text to discuss one sentence with three or four words.

Or maybe just a training course on how to trim quotes down. But yes.   

The longer the quote...

What do I like on my road related forum?

More "What do I like on my X" threads

Threads you'll never see on aaroads.com:
"What do you like on your ex?"

Yeah that's a bait thread.

[JoePCool14]

Yeah that's a bait thread.

I should have known someone would actually make that thread... (For the record, I made my post before he started the thread)

[Roadgeekteen]

Yeah that's a bait thread.

I should have known someone would actually make that thread... (For the record, I made my post before he started the thread)

Roadgeekteen ducks

[SkyPesos]

I think it's probably mostly because the people who don't like it know their side has effectively "won". When it doesn't seem to be the big change coming down the pipe anymore, there's less of a need for you to point out how much it sucks. FHWA does that for you now.

Wut.

Isn't Clearview getting phased out?

Not in Michigan to start off.
Though their signs actually look good in Clearview.

Clearview and button copy are gross and they look like they are from the 60s.

Ironically, FHWA was the '60s font, while Clearview was a thing from the late '90s.

[Roadgeekteen]

I like fun games like the speed limit challenge.