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Oboes always looked ridiculously difficult with their reeds. Yes! Great show. This is one of the primary benefits for us upgrading. The new site doesn't have a mobile skin, per se. It uses responsive design. Though some things vanish in the mobile view because they are not relevant, it's the same editor and same features. It's really great looking. I've been watching a lot of Twitch, so I'd probably want some Twitch emotes. I want my Kappas, EleGiggles, PogChamps, Kreygasms, and ResidentSleepers.

If they desire to say so, then they will. You are welcome to apologize. But we need to preserve the anonymity of the reputation system, as if they wish to stay anonymous, then that is their right. I can understand why you want to know why you are downvoted, but this is not the way to do it. If they wish to tell you, they can. But it's not required. You will have to stay in the dark, unless they wish to explain themselves. But yes, I do find it distasteful to ask why. It's not egregious, and it is definitely not egregious the way you did it. What I wish to avoid is that whenever anyone gets downvoted, people do pipe up in the topic and do want to know why. It is distracting for discussion because they do not have to. Thus, we have decided to take a hard line basically whenever something like this would occur, and simply saying that, hey, we should not do that. This has caused a lot of topics to derailed in the past, and long conversations about the reputation system that always end the same. Therefore, I'll generally default to this stance. Complaining about downvotes, or asking downvoters to reveal themselves will be prohibited. You are welcome to discuss matters of reputation abuse with me or anyone else on the staff, should it exist. In the past, I have absolutely seen conversations like this go in the realm of shaming people who give downvotes. They are demanding. They get extremely upset. And though you were reasonable, I obviously will need to enforce things equally. Though I can understand that you see this as silencing you, it is also necessary to protect the system in general. Essentially, to protect the ones who are already silent. You are of course welcome to discuss this with me in PM.

They are under no obligation to do so and I find it inappropriate to demand someone to explain themselves. This will be codified in updated reputation rules (which will finally be done post new site, sorry it has been forever). People shouldn't downvote purely out of disagreement, but there are also of plenty of other reasons to downvote and that is their right. It is very, very inappropriate to do what you are demanding, however. Rep equalizes; yours will be equalized as well to represent the proper community average. Thus, the matter is closed and we should not discuss it anymore and stay on topic (though random as it may be). EDIT: This might be a pet peeve of mine, but I honestly find that such demands are far more offensive than the mere act of downvoting. They do not need to reveal themselves. That's up to them. You don't get to shame them.

As expected there's nothing in the admin logs that suggest anyone change that (which is good; I make sure admins don't pull that stuff as jokes. It's not funny). Probably some kind of glitch, but I imagine the rep counts will be a bit different in the new site regardless.

Hey Twi I'm not sure why your rep would've gone down. I'll investigate. On the upgraded site the software will recount everyone's rep so it should reflect accurately on the total reputation across all posts. This might mean people's rep goes slight down in case of deleted topics, which won't contribute to rep totals. But if say I deleted a topic now it doesn't take away the rep total until I press the "recount reputation totals" button, so I really can't see why it would've decreased. I'll investigate.

I mean... if I knew the exact date, then I guess you could?

Actually soon, not soon™!

The new version of the site is really awesome. It's reeeeal <3 It's coming together very nicely.

You're missing The Eleventh Metal, an Allomancer Jak story, and The Hope of Elantris.

I'll give you a softball... INSERT COMPLEX MATH PROBLEM HERE ...Oh, okay, I probably shouldn't do that So what have you been up to recently? Not necessarily 17S or MBI, just in general in life.

You bet! It was made by a guy named Mbg. He uploaded it to both the Coppermind and the Stormlight Wikia.

But... you guys know what Josh and I sound like! There's audio evidence that exists of it, lol. You know it's been too long since there's been main Shardcast if no one remembers your voice

The icons are official, but the circle is not. See my post on your original topic: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/54643-heralds-position-switched/#entry445899

Ah, said image was uploaded by a short time contributor. I should've looked more closely at it to see there were flaws with that circle. Certainly the icons are from Isaac but some other fan built it, and then an editor who no longer does Coppermind stuff uploaded it here. (Or perhaps that editor created it.) Said editor often made mistakes... Sorry.

Just so you know Pathfinder, you can quote things! There's no multiquote here (yet) but you can copy and paste relevant text into this BBCode: [quote]Insert stuff here[/quote]

I've updated the above story to include info from Brandon's editor, Moshe, on this Lift story is huge! Longer than Emperor's Soul.

Thanks Eki! Basically, Jondesu, what happened is that in your first attempt, that's a link to the imgur webpage. The second is the direct link to only the image, which you need.

Attention: I am doing some more server maintenance in about ten minutes. You didn't notice the last one so it should be fine. It should not take long.

There are other quotes which do state that there is an ending to the cosmere sequence, and he said it is awesome. Considering how much Brandon loves endings, I do sincerely hope it is ridiculously awesome.

I have received word from Alyx that there will not be Splintercast this week.

Team Sanderson has referred to it as Arcanum Unbounded for a while. I do understand you, though, because I prefer "Arcanum Unbound" greatly, but hey, it is what it is.

I actually did that prior to this earlier yesterday. Kerry can tell you I literally did the same thing I did when this started but now it actually worked. So dumb.

I've learned my lesson on mentioning a release. I'm just going to say "actually soon". There's still a lot to do though. When things are more concrete I will be thrilled to tell you all.

I am truly sorry for the delay. It turned out to be very easy once I figured out what was going on. I'm going to be much more relieved when we are on the new 17S. This has been a considerable stressor in my life for a long time.

Well I guess no one noticed the maintenance so I guess it went fine