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BattleMaster => BM General Discussion => Topic started by: Perth on August 12, 2013, 08:31:20 PM

Title: BM Logo
Post by: Perth on August 12, 2013, 08:31:20 PM: What's up with the BM Logo on the forum today? Is today something special I'm not aware of?
Title: Re: BM Logo
Post by: Valast on August 12, 2013, 08:40:59 PM: NSA is watching you appreciation day!
Title: Re: BM Logo
Post by: SaDiablo on August 12, 2013, 08:44:37 PM: I think I am going to go hide now
Title: Re: BM Logo
Post by: Tom on August 13, 2013, 01:08:35 AM: It's got nothing to do with the NSA. It's a bit experimental, but there is some solid science behind this particular change that is related to recent discussions here.
Title: Re: BM Logo
Post by: Chenier on August 13, 2013, 01:09:59 AM: I find it kind of creepy.

That being said, there was nothing all that amazing about the old logo, either. If this serves a purpose, then so be it.
Title: Re: BM Logo
Post by: Kwanstein on August 13, 2013, 01:21:55 AM: The watcher's eye...
Title: Re: BM Logo
Post by: Sarwell on August 13, 2013, 02:56:33 AM: Something about keeping an eye on the naughty cheating "ForumMaster" players that a handful of people were whining about.
Title: Re: BM Logo
Post by: Tom on August 13, 2013, 09:54:20 AM: Quote from: Sarwell on August 13, 2013, 02:56:33 AM
Something about keeping an eye on the naughty cheating "ForumMaster" players that a handful of people were whining about.

That's a very negative way to put it, but it is pretty close.

Research (google it yourself, I'm too busy, sorry) indicates that eye contact is a major factor in human interaction, and the lack of eye contact in interactions deteriorates them. It is one of the contributing factors to the well-known fact that people are in general less friendly online than they would be in a real-life interaction. Now some research proves that this is such an instinctive effect, that even an image of an eye measurably improves online interaction.

Quote from: Chénier on August 13, 2013, 01:09:59 AM
That being said, there was nothing all that amazing about the old logo, either.

If you look closely, I did spend 5 minutes in Photoshop to put the old logo in as the iris of the eye. :-)
Title: Re: BM Logo
Post by: Chenier on August 13, 2013, 02:13:43 PM: Quote from: Tom on August 13, 2013, 09:54:20 AM
If you look closely, I did spend 5 minutes in Photoshop to put the old logo in as the iris of the eye. :-)

Nice touch. ;)
Title: Re: BM Logo
Post by: Azerax on August 13, 2013, 06:26:38 PM: There was an experiment done many years ago back when work places kept pop in the fridge and you'd just stick 50 cents into a can. People not actually paying for the pop (theft) dropped by some ridiculous amount (75%+) when they taped a pair of eyes to the change can.
Title: Re: BM Logo
Post by: egamma on August 14, 2013, 06:35:03 AM: Pop conversation moved here:

http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,5015.0.html (http://forum.battlemaster.org/index.php/topic,5015.0.html)