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So I finally read these after three years on The List of Things The QQQQ Must DoDoDo.I think that's 5 things I've crossed off the list this year - a new record![QQQQ]

Please remember to talk about the content of the artwork in the future.

Unfortunately you need to make all your posts in this forum Lego related, so remember that in the future.

Has there been a OBZPC that hasn't bought a premier membership?

I'm pretty sure there have been some.-Gata

Sure has, I was one of them.

Overthrow Black Six in a bloody coup.

Pretty much all the other staff members that are as old as dirt that I've known for some time.

It's a secret, no one has managed to get to it yet. :)Topic closed.

I have decided to quit BZPower (prefereby by having my account completely deleted) the day before I get that spinny. I am absolutely disgusted.

Yeah, no one is going to delete your account because you don't like a spinny.Then again, you have 7 years before reaching that point so I'm sure you'll probably change your mind by then.

Derp. The discussion about the spinny has been going on there for a while.

Indeed it has been, please redirect discussion there.Topic closed.

Button fix should be in, it was an issue where the wrong background color was being applied to browsers that don't support gradients (which would be Internet Explorer). Thanks for pointing it out guys

Thanks for the quick fix. It looks much better; those buttons are now quite visible. However, the buttons such as "Find Content," "Add/Remove Friend," and the one to send a message on profiles still have the problem.Edit: Oh, and the button to update status in the dropdown corner section also still has the problem too.~B~

Ok, I'll take a look at those this afternoon when I get off work.

Guys, while the shooting is very sad and a very serious situation, BZPower is not really the appropriate place to discuss it, nor is this topic. Please remain focused on the movie and more positive things.

So, why is this not an appropriate place to discuss it? It happened, didn't it? I'm getting really sick of BZPower censoring anything remotedly negative, even when it's absolutely relevant and staring you in the face, and pretending it doesn't exist, therefore blatantly ignoring the impact and tragedy of the situation.

Because this is a site for a childrens toy. We are not going to discuss a madman that mass murdered a group of people. It's not ignoring the impact or tragedy of the situation, it's choosing not to have discussions about something that is abhorrent and disgusting. Or would you prefer we just let a bunch of 12 year olds have to relive the horrors they saw unfold on television by discussing them here.BZPower is not the venue to discuss this, and it never will be. Sorry if that disappoints you.

Guess what? The world is abhorrent and disgusting, and those kids are reliving the horrors they saw everywhere else. Do you really have to go out of your way to censor world events and people's condolences for them?

So you're saying that because the world sucks, we need to bring up its sucky aspects at every given opportunity? And did you read my post? Because that explains how pointless it is to bring it up.- Tilius

No, that's not what I'm saying at all. I'm protesting BZPower going out of their way to ignore and censor those aspects if they come up. If no one wants to talk about it, it's fine, but if someone wants to express their sympathies for a tragic event, and they can't, then something's wrong here.

If you do not stop derailing this topic I will suspend your posting rights.This is your last warning. Go make a blog somewhere else if you want to whine about how oppressive we are.

Guys, while the shooting is very sad and a very serious situation, BZPower is not really the appropriate place to discuss it, nor is this topic. Please remain focused on the movie and more positive things.

So, why is this not an appropriate place to discuss it? It happened, didn't it? I'm getting really sick of BZPower censoring anything remotedly negative, even when it's absolutely relevant and staring you in the face, and pretending it doesn't exist, therefore blatantly ignoring the impact and tragedy of the situation.

Because this is a site for a childrens toy. We are not going to discuss a madman that mass murdered a group of people. It's not ignoring the impact or tragedy of the situation, it's choosing not to have discussions about something that is abhorrent and disgusting. Or would you prefer we just let a bunch of 12 year olds have to relive the horrors they saw unfold on television by discussing them here.BZPower is not the venue to discuss this, and it never will be. Sorry if that disappoints you.

Guess what? The world is abhorrent and disgusting, and those kids are reliving the horrors they saw everywhere else. Do you really have to go out of your way to censor world events and people's condolences for them?

Yep.And for continuing to dredge up this discussion enjoy the proto drop.

For the sake of consolidating discussion, I'm going to close this topic and redirect everyone to the talkback topic for the news story.

Button fix should be in, it was an issue where the wrong background color was being aplied to browsers that don't support gradients (which would be Internet Explorer). Thanks for pointing it out guys

Guys, while the shooting is very sad and a very serious situation, BZPower is not really the appropriate place to discuss it, nor is this topic. Please remain focused on the movie and more positive things.

So, why is this not an appropriate place to discuss it? It happened, didn't it? I'm getting really sick of BZPower censoring anything remotedly negative, even when it's absolutely relevant and staring you in the face, and pretending it doesn't exist, therefore blatantly ignoring the impact and tragedy of the situation.

Because this is a site for a childrens toy. We are not going to discuss a madman that mass murdered a group of people. It's not ignoring the impact or tragedy of the situation, it's choosing not to have discussions about something that is abhorrent and disgusting. Or would you prefer we just let a bunch of 12 year olds have to relive the horrors they saw unfold on television by discussing them here.BZPower is not the venue to discuss this, and it never will be. Sorry if that disappoints you.

The white text on buttons issue is due to the button background not displaying properly in some browsers. We've identified the source of the problem and will put in a fix asap. Thanks guys!

Also, should this be happening?-SK

We're aware of it but sadly don't have a way to resolve it. We're hamstrung a bit by the existing board code and would have to modify that instead of just css files.

I have to be honest, the colors seem a little off...a little too generic and bland.The one thing I love, though, is the Takua icon in the blog headers. That rocks.I also don't see the correlation with the topic icons...-SK

I'm sorry, you're more than welcome to go back to using the out of the box bland, generic skin if this bland, generic skin doesn't meet your fancy.This is supposed to be a modern take on the classic BZP skin. We went with those colors and made it to look like that. The goal wasn't to make something with rainbows and bright colors shooting out of every corner.You may as well not use the internet if you think this is bland and generic, because it turns out that the rest of the internet is typically this "bland and generic."Oh, and Ballom. We identified your issue and will get a fix in for that asap.

I like it =D Especially the new quote blocks

I think they look especially cool

Great job, guys =)

Glad you like how the quote blocks turned out, they were one of the harder bits to get figured out.

And honestly, the rhetoric from the staff really shows that you ARE throwing out what made this site. The spinny's just a symptom. Again, as I have repeated constantly, I don't hate the spinny at all, I'm just slightly bummed that it couldn't have been Bionicle or at least something more representative and universal of Hero Factory (like Furno). But Rocka is cool, and the gif seems great. You are the one who continues getting annoyed at the fact that someone prefers Bionicle over Hero Factory.

I'll address the rhetoric bit in a moment...When it comes to people getting annoyed, it probably stems from the fact that there are people, not specifically you, that adamantly argue that Hero Factory shouldn't be on this site. It's not a straw man argument, it actually happens! It's happened in this topic even, just look through all the pages and you'll see people arguing that Hero Factory is essentially a scourge against BZPower. But that becomes then thing then, when people say those types of things, it happens to associate all dissent with it. People grow tired of constant complaining, so even if it isn't much more than "I'm disappointed it wasn't Bionicle" it ends up bringing back up those old wounds so to speak.And that dovetails into our rhetoric that supposedly shows that we are throwing away our rich Bionicle history (despite several staff members saying that we have a surprise in the works that definitely keeps up our Bionicle tradition). Our rhetoric may seem more heated at times, but it's because we've grown weary of having to deal with people telling us we shouldn't do anything not related to Bionicle. We want what's best for BZPower, we want to move the site forward and continue to be a great news and community site, but that's difficult to do when your subject material is dead and not coming back. We do our best to honor Bionicle (and if we were going to throw away our Bionicle history why would we keep our rank images, the existing 10 years of spinnies, etc..) but we need to be forward looking and do what we can to keep interest in the site alive. It's a struggle for us as we lost one of our biggest differentiators against other Lego fan sites. So if we seem impatient when all we get is people complaining that we're ignoring our Bionicle history by doing things not related to Bionicle, understand it comes from the perspective of people trying to juggle keeping this site relevant while hold true to our roots, all of which takes us time to develop.

Guys, while the shooting is very sad and a very serious situation, BZPower is not really the appropriate place to discuss it, nor is this topic. Please remain focused on the movie and more positive things.

Ewww, who put these ugly kanoka disks on my profile. Gross.

And there are those that like Hero Factory and want to see more of that in the forum and are told it shouldn't exist on this board because it somehow degrades the rich Bionicle history we have.Both sides are making silly, overdramatic arguments that make a way bigger deal out of a little spinning icon then there should be.Hence my reaction to this argument.

So we're all arguing about the significance towards our Bionicle heritage that an icon, that takes a member 11 years to reach and will only appear on a small percentage of our posting population, has?Cool.

It has more to do with the fact that Paint is just a low quality art program useful for primarily pixel art only. There are other free software, such as Gimp or Paint.NET that are far more capable than Paint. I don't think there is a instinctive hatred of everything made in Paint so much as it just isn't all that useful of a tool and generally the quality of things produced in it is lower than other programs.

It might SOUND like hatred, but in reality it could be the artists raving over the fact that MSPainters are getting more attention than the hand-drawn artists. I think for some, they think that pixel-artists shouldn't be considered artists at all.I like drawing more than pixel art, because you have to have more experience. And not just with graphite or inking, but with photoshop too. Pixel art is a matter of dragging and dropping. Someone used a great word for it, building. They build their work rather than draw it.I don't hate it, but I think we've killed it by this point.

Pixel art, which is different than copying and pasting pieces from a kit which is what I think you're confusing for pixel art, is actually a very interesting form of art. It's the idea of emulating the style and feel of the 8 bit and 16 bit era of video games. It is something that takes a lot of skill to pull off and is admirable.

Hey Micheal, Happy Birthday! You're a wonderful guy, enjoy celebrating 25 years of a fine life.

When you have an actual story to post, then you may repost your topic, until then, this serves no purpose.Topic closed.