Yeah, I think “official reply” would be a natural progression for “add staff color”.
It shouldn’t be specific to Solved, since “official reply” is useful in virtually any context of a forum, and also with other plugins such as #plugin:voting
So how about:
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Rename “add staff color” to “official reply”, as that is a much more meaningful name that helps admins intuit what to use it for
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Give it better, less extreme styling; something akin to what a few game forums are doing with all staff posts:
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Don’t make me tack it on after posting. Add it to the post cog menu, alongside whisper etc.
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Add a marker for it to the vertical slider.
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Let plugins like Solved and Voting do their own special little things with it.
