Hahaha, it used to be like that, but we decided that consistency was something worth striving for so everything's regulated and by the book now.

Unfortunately I can't see this happening due to way colored names are used exclusively to highlight staff (other than legends) so I'm not sure it'd be a good idea to let people choose their own color and have even more floating around. If we ever revamp the forum subscriptions though then adding one color for the usergroup could potentially be something we look at.