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« Topic Start: 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?
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Re: BM Logo
« Reply #1: August 12, 2013, 08:40:59 PM »
NSA is watching you appreciation day!

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« Reply #2: August 12, 2013, 08:44:37 PM »
I think I am going to go hide now

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Re: BM Logo
« Reply #3: 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.

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« Reply #4: 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.
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« Reply #5: August 13, 2013, 01:21:55 AM »
The watcher's eye...

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« Reply #6: 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.
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Re: BM Logo
« Reply #7: August 13, 2013, 09:54:20 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.


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. :-)

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« Reply #8: August 13, 2013, 02:13:43 PM »
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. ;)
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« Reply #9: 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.

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« Reply #10: August 14, 2013, 06:35:03 AM »