First off, I'm more than likely over-reacting. This just irritates me immensely.

So I come on this morning and do what I usually do first thing - link back advertisements that've been posted on Fey, because if I don't do it straight off, I'll never get around to it. Today there's just one, which makes it nice and easy for me. Being the considerate person that I am, I make a point to read their advertising rules before I post anything. The funny thing?

Take away two words, one section, and through in some italics, and they're my advertising rules.

Okay, not only is that a stupid thing to grumble about, as it's advertising rules, and everyone has the same ones anyone, but they're not the exact same.

The thing is, I got sick of numbering rules and such, so I came up with little phrases that sum up the information in each section of rules (which, admittedly, are really only funny to me :p). What irks me is that those are what were hijacked.

The doing-away with numbers? Fine. I'm sure a bajillion people do it. Stealing my exact thingamabobs? DIE.

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Now that sucks. I've never done anything like that thank God, not even as a newbie. I hope you get it settled.

That sucks. Though I have to admit to taking a char sheet template from one site..... -walks away-

Edit: Well, Char Sheets are fairly generic anyways. >.>

If it makes you feel any better, your rules look better without italics ;)

Well, I guess at least they didn't rip your site. It's just a little thing; but if you put a lot of hard work into them you should probably confront them.

Tsk, Origin. Never steal other things from people. Using them as a basis for a radically changed one is one thing, stealing an exact or close one is another.

That sucks, Clipsed. Still, think of it as a compliment. If I were you I'd talk to the admin and ask for a credit ^_^

Yes, yes! Ask for credit.

Sheesh, I always give credit, even if I just used the base of something to create my own. x_x

ask for credit? DEMAND IT, I SAY! -jumps up on desk...looks around and gets off-

ANYWAY...

i don't think you're over reacting at all. even if it is rules, they are YOUR rules.

they do say that copying is the greatest form of flattery or whatever but, even then, you usually go 'thanks, i got it from...' if someone compliments you on something you got from someone else.

i had an entire board ripped from me without credit not too long ago. same forums, generally the same rules, threads, etc. the only real difference was the names and the location. when i confronted the person about it, all i asked for was credit and a FEW changes so that the board wouldn't look identical to mine... instead? they changed nearly the whole board. that was their idea but i was not upset by this.

I managed to come up with a reasonably civil email to the culprit asking that it be changed drastically (the idea I don't really care about; word for bloody word I do); if I don't get a response or see changes by tomorrow, I'll go to some of the other admins (there are at least two).


EDIT: And it's been taken down ^^;;

^ That's the best course of action. Confronting them rudely in the cbox doesn't seem to have the same immediate effects as a firm PM. =] Glad they took down your stuff and hopefully they'll make up their own things next time. (I still can't get over the fact that they copied something as simple as advertising rules... I thought yours were clever and funny, but they're just advertising rules. How pathetic can they be?)

Ya. I think that was a great choice of action. Don't know why people have to copy something like that, it's silly, it's so easy to create advertising rules.

All though I do get angry because people never seem to follow mine. Meh.

Anyways, bout 6 years ago, when I was 12, I'd just discovered RPG's by posting, and I joined this awsome HP site. I got so inspired, I went to go create my own, and what did I think was the most logical way of doing so? I just copied the whole damn site, changing a few things here and there, and adding an extra plot. XD I don't know what I was thinking. Then, I was even more foolish to advertise my site, on the site I'd copied from! XDXD
Well, a day later, I get the other site's admin and practicly the whole member population of the other site, on mine, TROLLING. Writing nastry messages about how I was a copy cat, ect...
I got so freaked out, I got rid of everything I had copied, (which meant practicly the whole site) and sent this long ass message to the admin of the other site apologising.
I ended up using my own creativity, which I had never thought to do :p and created a pretty awsome site, for a 12 year old XD, which ended up going for about 2 years, and had 200 members.
Since that event, I NEVER copied again. That admin scared me shitless that even when I get 'inspired' from another site I give the site credit.
Hm, I wonder where that admin is now....