Rubix

Please keep this thread on topic, with regards to Brandon Sanderson's Reckoners series, and its potential movie adaptation. If you'd like to discuss how this may impact the Reckoners RP, please discuss that in those boards.

Define "Nothing".

Not all, but two. An announcement will be going up later today explaining why.

I want to make one thing clear to everyone here. You may not have respect for someone on this site, but you will treat everyone with respect. I concede that you can respect whomever you'd like, and that my opinion is irrelevant in that regard. But if you come here and start treating others without respect, and continue to do so when confronted about it, my opinion becomes very relevant. Access to this site is granted at our discretion. And if my opinion becomes that you shouldn't continue to have access, you will be invited to not come back.

Done. Get out.

Not possible to implement with the current software we're using.

So this is the thanks I get for insisting on, and figuring out a new layout... *feigns outrage* I'm glad you guys like it.

Shameless bump is shameless.

Nope. xD

You might be surprised. The thing is, this site has a lot fewer costs than the shop does, and years longer to develop. I'm going to be doing some awesome stuff in the coming months for the site, and getting this grant will help make that stuff even better. I know I'm being a bit unspecific, but I'm wanting to keep a few things a surprise.

It came up in the topic on the forums, so I'm posting here as well: We've got a little over nine days left to get the votes in.

A little over nine days from now.

Hey Sharders, We've got an opportunity to help the site, a member of our community, as well as make the world just a little better. I'll try to keep it brief, and I hope by the end, I'll be able to persuade you. A dear friend of mine owns a small music shop. He's doing everything he can to try to help inspire change in an industry that is laden with issues. Many instruments and music supplies that are sold around the area we live are manufactured abroad, by companies that pay their employees so little that the employees are basically slaves. What he's done is made sure that as much as he can of what he offers is made by people who are being paid a fair wage. I believe in what he's doing so much, that I'm actually going to be joining him as a business partner, combining this site and his shop to make the world a little better. Right now, he has an opportunity to receive a grant for $100,000, which would help propel this business ahead by years overnight, helping him pay for things like a delivery van, purchasing a broader inventory, and even hiring a few employees. That's where you guys come in. In order to be considered for this grant, he needs at least 250 votes on this page. It does require a Facebook account to vote, but you don't have to post or share anything. All we ask is that you use your real Facebook account, just to avoid making it look to the selection committee that we may have rigged the vote. And if we do receive this grant, I promise, some awesome things will come to the site. Thank you guys so much for being awesome.

What special edition? I don't know of any that have been put out...

Thank you all for the input, and the level headed discussion. We're definitely going to take this under advisement, but please know that if we do change the name of the reputation level, it will not be changed to Slontze. Slontze is used in a defamatory manner in the books, and we do try to put things like that into the negative reputation levels. If anyone has any questions, or suggestions for what we could change the title to, feel free to drop me a PM. Coming up with a replacement title tends to take me a little while, so options would help me greatly. Thanks again! Rubix Edit: The reputation level has been changed.

Stark raving mad is pretty accurate.

The age of the readers probably has a great deal to do with it. Where those books are geared towards younger readers, the forums actually do allow for kids under 13 to register (with a parent entering their email address), which 17S does not. Okay, yes, the Alcatraz books are geared towards younger readers, but a WIDE majority of Brandon's readership is over 13. So yeah, there's a chance that Harper Collins could get in trouble for what's on those boards, and there are probably parents who contact them wanting tighter rules so that their kids won't run into content that they object to (see their ghost rule on guns). Fortunately, 17S isn't beholden to a publisher in that way, and while we do have a professional relationship with Brandon and his team (we're the official fansite, and we're linked on Brandon's site), they (more often than not) let us do as we see best.

Here's the thing. Like, 90% of my theory on rules is that it comes down to "Don't be a jerk to another human being". Yes, all we see here are avatars, but it's a real person at the other end. That's not so say that some things won't be said that may disagree with what specific people believe. It's when you start targeting someone specific that things become a problem. There have been problems on this site in the past, and to some extents, there always will be. But we're going to continue to put the foot down when people come here and can't bring themselves to be civil. And as many people here can attest, we're very open about what happens by way of moderation. A lot of the time we like to handle it via PM instead of in a thread, but if you have questions, please, never hesitate to shoot me a PM. I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

He has brown eyes.

Hijacking this for the twitter, FYI. Edit: Hijacked.

I've removed the images with profanity, as they are against site rules.

Post count.

Nope. My identity is fairly easily figured out.

Nope. Not you.