Quote - My post with the screendump was a response to the comment about the "blinding" "silvery" background color of the forums. You were the one who mentioned the gradient (which is not behind the text, but only down the sides), which is a separate issue and nothing to do with my screendump.

The colour of the  white forum table itself is not the problem.  The blinding silvery grey pattern on the site is.

There is text on the blinding silvery grey all around the site, even on the text outside of the white forum table in the forum area.

Also  it's not just the text on the blinding silvery grey background that is problematic, it's the blinding silvery grey pattern ittself, which I might add when combined with the white table in the forums, make the whole thing, including the white forum table, really blinding and painful to look at. When you take a screenshot of just the white forum table and leave out the part that is really causing the problems (surrounding silvery grey gradient),  you are not getting the whole effect of the problem and are therefore not presenting the whole thing in it's true context.

Quote - Why would I post a screencap showing the gradient when I was responding to comments about the brightness of the background color?

I believe that statement was being made about the silvery grey background of the whole site, and not the colour of the table used for the forum and thread list.  The background in this case is the silvery grey one used around the forum table and the rest of the site. 

Now please, can we move on and not keep nit picking and turning this thread into a heated fight?  Please?

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