[Miller]

If there is punishment for it, I highly doubt it would be a first offense deal and mainly be a case of persistent abuse and disregard for others which is arguably already against the rules to begin with; but there should be a rule not to make a giant glowing blob that could negatively impact someone else (I personally don't mind dimming the screen slightly, that effect is pretty cool), especially when there's excessive GPU load from rendering extremely large text outlines used for these effects which could cause lower end computers to hard freeze for minutes at a time.

I love profile techs and the like and if I really wanted to stroke my non-existant ego; I would argue a large majority of them originated from me in the first place, which I hope gives weight to the fact that I think there should really be way more consideration for the person viewing your profile. I personally don't want to open a profile and get flashbanged by pure white or orange and I imagine others feel the same.

In short, punishment should just be for the ones actively being a nuisance with it and disturbing others (such as blocking the X button); there's already precedent for this being punished in the past when people kept making giant black blobs to block your screen for shock value.