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I guess what I'm saying is that the perception of colors and brightness is not determined by a vacuum, but by the things around it. Pretty sure the actual problem is the blazing main space, and the logo is very minor in comparison. I imagine you have done such adjustments for the other stuff and so the issue is the logo, but from my perspective that is not the overall concern to support such modifications to appearance. So, when taken as a whole, the logo is not the primary issue in a dark mode.

These are long out of spoiler period with the physical release, and we elected to not re-introduce a spoiler period. You're welcome to make a topic discussing them, of course.

True, but in my experience, that... is not very much the majority or usual. That might just be you, actually, as looking at this I think there's a lot more that's a lot brighter. This isn't that category of thing, actually, but it does require time to do. It's low on my priority list of tasks at least. I should try and devote some time to this...

I feel like there's a lot more eye searing things there that are more impactful here but okay.

I mean, I'm not saying this is necessarily intentional. I'm speculating why it's in the spam filter. I'm just very reticent to argue for removing stuff from it when we have so many problems as it is.

Yeah it's a little bit of tradition, a little bit of laziness, and a little bit of us liking to trigger homophobes, you know? Ooof. That ancient logo is terrible though.

I am not sure that's wise to change. We have to block a LOT of traffic. There are tons of spam bots and tons of AI webcrawlers (if the site is slow, that's why! We are being slammed by way higher traffic from them and it's touch to deal with).

Nope, currently it is my main character of my book, Alessa. I commissioned art of three characters from the book and it turned out great. The previous one was Jenna, from Diceborn: Secrets in Stained Glass (which I am still immensely proud of). I do indeed teach math. Funny stories from the classroom... I mean, this is probably the best one:

Yeah, I can't imagine we would make exclusions to this policy in regards to creative works maybe... ever? I don't know. Predicting the future is of Odium, so who knows. So far, I'm pleased with how the policy has turned out.

I would just say that in the edge cases that have come up, it's been very nice that we have a stricter stance, so we can just say no, rather than split hairs. People are welcome to have different lines for how much AI they want in creative works personally. We have said that as long as the text is theirs, then that's fine. So brainstorming is fine. But we are pretty firm that we do not want AI generated creative works here. The AI generated content is going to come only ever faster so I think it's not really worth our time to discuss debate specific usages, moderation-wise, as time goes on. It's already paid dividends! (And on a personal level, though the AI usage you mention is different from a bunch of AI generated images, I would also say from an author perspective--as I just finished a huge revision of my own novel--I have to agree with Brandon's speech from last Nexus: when you're working on creative stuff, you're learning and growing yourself. The process of editing--and the thought and creativity you provide--is what matters, and you grow so much from it. Yes, it's hard! But very rewarding. That is just my personal point of view, and not 17S policy, though.)

Ene uses he/him pronouns and has for a while, just so you know. I don't think Dragonsteel emailing out the files gives us permission to post them online, so we have not done so.

This absolutely is a scam site.

Good! We should question everything, and discard anything that doesn't have a good reason to believe.

Tau is so much better. It'd make learning the unit circle far easier. Half the circle would be tau/2. Way better! In basically every physics formula, it's always 2pi. That really should indicate that 2pi is the correct one. I mean, when the hell do we even is C = pi * d? Use the radius! The radius is the important one. You might say, "But Eric what about A = pi*r^2?" To which I'd say, A = 1/2 tau*r^2 is very symmetric with the kinetic energy formula. That 1/2 should be there anyway, due to integration. In fact, I thought that one argument against tau was that the standard normal distribution had a single sqrt(pi) rather than sqrt(2pi), but nope! It does have a 2pi. I guess the integral from -infinity to infinity of e^(-x^2) has the sqrt(pi)... So anyway, I'm a math professor who loves tau. I'm not at all a fan of pi day, and I won't stand for this pi propaganda merely because "well then we can have pie on pi day". Lame. I spend pi day in my math tutoring center explaining why tau is superior.

Ya'll need to chill. EDIT: That is certainly odd, so I understand the reaction.

I don't know what to tell you. I have no idea when you changed it. If it happened to be very close to when you changed it, that is certainly strange. It is a coincidence. Indeed, I absolutely don't come on every day. Spooky? Sure, I can see that, but I would appreciate if you believe the words I say? I have literally no reason to lie... there was no report or anything... That would be completely insufferable if I got pinged for every name change.

Is that common? Maybe this is why we get so many people who literally never read the forum descriptions. But yeah, I loaded the forums and saw it pretty much first thing. This is not a mystery

...I saw it on the forum home, just like any most recent poster would appear?

Hi

Yes: That's five lines. You have space for that first paragraph, everything after is too long. I'd leave it for your About Me page or compactify.

Hi, the 17S Discussion board is for site related discussion, not book discussion. You're looking for the Cosmere Discussion board, which I've moved this to.

Hi and welcome. AI generated content is not permitted in the site, including profile pics: Apologies and thank you.

This does vary depending on viewport, but feel free to report people and I'll investigate. I would say this is too long; choose between image or the text. Both makes it too long.

You want Entertainment Discussion for non-Brandon books, and says books in its description: https://www.17thshard.com/forums/forum/29-entertainment-discussion/ Lots of people had issues with Wind and Truth and so that wouldn't be unusual. Our Code of Conduct discusses the conduct we expect from people, and yeah, people are allowed to like or dislike what they wish. Of course, you can imagine discussion on Brandon books to involve lots of fans here, which can bias who is talking. I guess what I'd say is you're absolutely allowed and encouraged to post unpopular opinions, and everyone does need to be respectful. But, others are also allowed to not agree with your opinion either. That doesn't mean anyone is talking in bad faith for disagreeing. For example if someone came onto the forums and said Way of Kings (a book very well received in general) sucked, that person should expect people to not necessarily agree, and that's okay. I have seen this where people with the unpopular opinion feel they are being dogpiled, when in reality it's just... Yeah, sometimes a lot of people like a thing that you don't.

No worries. In general I do recommend thinking, as a general policy.