Coming more to the substance of what you were saying I had the same problem with the different color used by moderators. As a matter of fact I had a suggestion I was about to make to domina a while ago if I had the time. Usually the moderators are also active posters. When they moderate the different color can help. The rest of the time it distracts. I was thinking it would be nice if they had two different fonts they could choose from and use depending whether their post is as a moderator or as a participant. Problem probably is there is no platform support for this. The way to overcome it could be by having two logins, one as moderator, the other as participant.