[Azoz]

Or maybe the lesson is not to expect everyone else to go with /your/ flow.

I saw some fake links with color magic in OOC once. A few confused clicks later I realized what was going on and ignored it.

I don't care for color codes because I'm too lazy to use them myself. Otherwise I really don't care about them, and haven't run into many problems with them.

I don't use your colored alert system, I've had too much trouble with chat color settings staying the same. What I find works well is to separate all of your chat into very specific categories - I have one chat window with a million tabs, and I just look out for updates to a given tab to know something is going on in combat, or group, or guild, or npc, etc.