Buttons seem to be working in chrome, not sure if anybody did anything or If Chrome is just messed up (probably the latter ). Anywho, It's looking pretty good, I guess...

What trademark concern ? Have Lego said anything ? Wait until if or when they do then consider changing it. Don't panic over ' What ifs '

And I am sorry, what is the difference between using a design that looks a little like a Lego minifig or one that looks a little like a Lego brick ?
I see no difference from a legal point of view. Lego never got their act together when it came to copyrighting their designs, that is why Mega Bloks and the other Lego clone companies can exist without fear of legal action from Lego. We are not portraying ourselves as Lego Partners or Lego themselves. They have absolutely no reason to try anything legal against us. I am sure they don't care either way.

I don't care what you do in the background programming wise, that is down to you. Few of us know a lot about heavy site coding we just want it to work. We appreciate the work you are doing and trust your programming skills.

I don't care how my house is built as long as it is built solidly. But I do want a say in the way that it is decorated as it is me that will be one of the occupants.

But when this site was created it was aimed at the community FOR and BY the community.  Please do not loose that aspect it is very very important that the community has input in these things. Otherwise it will just become another Brickfilms.com dictatorship where they don't give a rats-ass what we say think or do..

All you had to do was say,

'We feel we need to change the logo of the site due to xyz, we have put a temporary logo in place and we will be having a design brainstorming session soon for you to choose what design you want'

That way through simple tact and discretion we would have felt involved in OUR Community and we could have our input / say in due course.

This logo issue might seem a trivial thing to you, but it is our identity. It is important, we should have a say. Not a little feedback from the chat room which not many frequent, or the beta testing team, it should be all of us that have a say on our identity.

Last edited by Si665 (April 8, 2009 (11:14am))

Absolutely not.  The strength, purpose, and identity of BiM is the people who are here.  It would be just as meaningful a place with no logo.

If some people were to leave over a logo that was decided on by a large group of mature, respected members and is still being evaluated while we consider other possibilities, that would be such a ridiculous and nitpicky reason to leave that I would be glad to have these people gone.  As I said several times already in this thread, we're open to suggestions and are working very hard to be receptive to the community.  However, whether or not to follow trademark laws isn't something we're willing to put up to a vote.  If somebody were to present a brilliant new logo, or even an acceptable variation one of the preexisting ones, we'd consider it!  And we're already looking at other possibilities, too.

If you can't read the thread, then maybe you should hold your grand accusations instead of saying stuff like this!  I've already said several times that we're open to suggestions for improvements, I haven't told the community to just shove it.

A few examples:

Si, you really like to debate don't you? And Brickme, are you saying that Smeagol doesn't know what he is talking about? Blasphemy!

Last edited by Spudster (April 8, 2009 (11:55am))

I'm gonna complain more and then when Rev makes a second post call him a hypocrite for complaining about not getting what he wants.

D:

It's nice of people to judge whether or not I "know what I'm talking about" before we've had a chance to even finish the website.

On a side note, "brickme," everything you've ever posted sounds a lot like Aled Owen, a member we've had a lot of trouble with in this community over the years.  If you're not Aled I'm sorry for asking about it, but currently there are a lot of things that match up and I don't have any way of knowing you're not him.  (I guess if you finish that film you're working on we'll know for sure.   Aled was never a very active brickfilmer.)

I'm Aled Owen.

-Dave