Can we stop the ranting and flamage and get back on to the main topic of the thread please? This is not the thread for complaining about rules or ranting about how coloured text may or may not be an Abomination Unto Nuggan.

Anyway, on flood control: this could be very useful, given the limited number of chat lines displayed in the main game window. How about a server-side setting like X lines in Y seconds = muted for Z seconds?

On coloured text: I fail to see why a client-side option to disable this could possibly be a bad thing.