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Eternal Khol is right. There used to be passwords and now there are not. I'll try to find all the instances of passwords there and remove it. Sorry about that.

You now have the ability to do this in the future

I've moved this to the Mistborn forum. Cheers, and welcome!

Brandon made some comments on Facebook about this: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10157067377635009&id=621235008 Here, in particular, is a comment regarding races of characters.

I wrote a news article on this. Argent made a labeled version of this: They look pretty Alethi tan to me... It's funny because in Discord, they didn't really say that they looked white at all.

That's very interesting. We're updating to a new version this next month and I imagine this will change. I will definitely investigate. EDIT: Hmmm apparently I just need to make a list of questions for this. This can be done. Not quite sure why the navbar is above this window; that's uncommon for the sort of pop-ups IPS does.

It's caw, like I'm a bird. Caw, caw! It's a really dumb Galaxy Quest reference.

Apparently this was a very popular event so they are extending the deal for another day while they sort out technical details. It seems to be doing better now:

I've added this to the article. I suspect that's because Tor only has rights to distribute in NA, and also possibly rules about giveaways and lotteries. My impression is that they worked with Isaac to make them canonical.

I think Mestiv merely spoke a bit imprecisely. There is an 18+ channel, but we don't share NSFW images/fanfics there. It is not a pornography channel. Mestiv also, separately, is saying that such fan art and fanfic exist, but we do not share them. Does that make sense?

So on the 17th Shard discord server there is an opt-in 18+ which allows swearing and discussion of more mature content, however, NSFW art cannot be shared there, either. There are many different cosmere Discords. The one where we run, you won't be able to share NSFW art. Our 18+ channel is more about mature discussion about more serious topics, as there are younger members of the site, so we try to keep things clean. It is given out by moderator discretion. No NSFW images there. What's the confusion?

Hi! Just so you know, you can hit the + next to the Quote button to quote multiple people at the same time. We'd prefer you do this than double post.

@SingingMosaic It is my sincerest apologies that it has taken me so long to respond. I admit, I have not used screen readers. Our software has some custom modifications but is predominantly created by Invision Power Suite. I am not sure how to implement the fixes you need, and the more things we do custom, the harder it is to update the software. We are on a bit older software version than we should, and I can hope that a newer version will be better for screen readers. I honestly don't know. I know that is an extremely disappointing response that is basically a shrug, but I will definitely contact you when we do some software updates to see if things improve. I will also try to be cognizant of this when I make customizations to the default theme, so I don't inadvertently break something for you.

Well, the thing is, five is a lot of pinned topics. I was hoping that the navigation would be explanation enough on it.

I think the real problem is that Brandon had a WoB about there being a "universal donor" which... really doesn't work: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/322/#e9237

I'd still assume people could write a sentence stating support or interest when relevant. For article comments, that's fine, though upvoting will come back this summer, so don't worry too much about this. Please note that the policy here is not actually different from the old spam policy, so nothing is actually different.

Forum Games is separate from this since it does not increase post count, but in book discussion, someone posting "Nice" with nothing else has no value, and should be discouraged. It's like someone posting "First" on a YouTube video. Does that make sense? I'm not entirely sure what your second line means in this context.

Hi everyone! We have done a massive rules overhaul today. That's for the best since the rules have... not exactly had an extensive rewrite since 2011. 17th Shard has changed a lot since then, and our community is a lot bigger now. So let me go through the highlights of what we did. We've expanded our rule that basically said "be respectful" into a much longer Code of Conduct. It explains our expectations for all members in much more detail. Things in that topic are things we will moderate. It also has a very expansive anti-harassment policy, how to report things, as well as a description on how moderation works, and common actions we will take on moderation. Realistically all of these things are things we have had before, but hopefully a much more detailed description of such things will help us as we get into another influx of new members for Rhythm of War. I want to make special mention that in the Code of Conduct, there is now a completely anonymous way to report things, should you need. We realized with our strong anti-harassment policy we did not have a mechanism for this, so we've created one. Next, we have put a lot of the administrative policies into a Policies topic. These are policies you should follow, describing our rules about double posts, signatures, spoiler policy, but for the most part you wouldn't be moderated if you broke those rules on occasion. (Repeated offenses might lead to moderation, however.) Please give a huge thanks to LadyLameness for her hard work on these documents. These were a team effort and a lot of drafting on these happened, but she's the one who put in a TON of time in making these documents amazing. But wait, there's more! There is also a Best Practices for Posting in Debates thread that Comatose has written for your advice. These topics, with our original forum introduction and how/to (finally updated!), is pinned in the 17S Discussion forum. Discord rules have also been updated, too! Though those topics are closed please feel to comment here on any of these things. Much of this should be expected stuff that we've already done, but expanded in a clearer way. We're here to answer questions though!

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