Uennie
Uennie
You need to take other things into the big picture.
The portion where you edit the code states clearly that you were NOT to change or edit navigation or basic bars.
Now some people were replacing navigation bars and such with very pretty ones, unfortunately along with that came people that instead of providing the proper names which ARE required in the original disclaimer, as well as the NEW statement because people abused that:
Theme
Your profile is defined as the content below the header. The header includes the top two navigation bars used by all members on Gaia.
You may change graphics below the header only. This is important, failure to adhere to this will result in the
disabling of your profile theme. Please note that your custom theme may break due to layout changes in the future.
People abused that. Not only did some of them change the graphics (menu names), SOME were probably able to break the navigation.
Your argument is understood but you need to take the before warning and the action after. There was a warning. I think this was better than completely deactivating some of your profiles. Take it into consideration and work out the common sense. They gave us an inch and a bunch took it a mile. You can think of it this way. They trusted us with something with an obvious warning and we didn't listen and went beyond it.
I AM disappointed because I was looking forward to editing and finishing up my theme. But the Gaia staff do deserve their rights as well in this situation. They warned, we didn't listen, and therefor we deserved to be punished as such. They went leniently, they could have deleted/deactivated every one of those who edited it, and they didn't.
Be alittle grateful and understanding. Or try it at least?
The original said that we could alter the navigation and the header, but we weren't supposed to BREAK navigation, meaning we couldn't remove links.
In either case, if we abused it then, what's gonna keep others from doing it now? Simply allowing CSS gives us the ability to screw with the nav.
I didn't see a single profile that abused it anyway, in the sense that people didn't link as they asked.
Twobit said something about "uniform navigation"...well, it WAS a uniform navigation since people actually couldn't change the actual links and if people couldn't read...well, they shouldn't be on Gaia. And in either case, I don't see why a "uniform navigation" couldn't have options to have one's nav bar in different colors at least.
I've taken my profile down. I worked too hard on it to have the layout clash. I'd already spent too much time on it and I honestly don't have the motivation to work that hard on a theme that would have to revolve around that fugly bar. The admins can just make their own themes and I'll just mooch off of those.
Yeah, it is the admins' site, but that doesn't mean that I can't be peeved as a user who has dedicated much of her time to the place and who generally likes it.
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