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Post by Enchant on May 14, 2007 12:23:51 GMT -5
I am sorry to be emailing you with upsetting news, but I feel that I am left with no option. As you know, one of the main reason I have kept the boards closed to guest is because of people stealing content and concepts.
Well, I am sad to stay, that if someone is intent on stealing, they will find away. It is unfortunate but it does happen. Sadly, it hurts even more when I find out it is some of our own members. It has come to my attention that one or more members has joined the Enchanted Element under a false pretense, to swipe some of our content and concepts...this is to include thread topics. They have or had a simular themed forums and have come here to take our ideas and used them on thier own forum without giving credit to the Enchanted Element.
Although, I shouldn't I am going to give this person or people the opportunity to remove such content from thier forums, if not I will not hesitate to report it to TOS and plea for the removal of such forum.
I take the Enchanted Element seriously. I have put many hours and much work and love into it and will not see others take my and my members thoughts and work for thier own gain. I am very serious about this.
I have also sent an email to all members. There should be no excuse of not seeing this.
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Post by Mistress Rell on May 14, 2007 13:46:57 GMT -5
0_o.................
.........you have proof of this?? Other than the fact that their site looks like this one.
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Post by Enchant on May 14, 2007 16:16:22 GMT -5
0_o................. .........you have proof of this?? Other than the fact that their site looks like this one. Of course...not only do I, but those who reported it to me and brought it to my attention.
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Post by Shooshoo on May 14, 2007 18:09:34 GMT -5
I dont think I have received an e-mail about this Enchant, I'm saddened by this development.
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Post by Mistress Rell on May 15, 2007 7:13:43 GMT -5
I am disgusted. I use to have an account there, but the site was going downhill fast. Apparently the Admin turned it over to people who never monitored it.
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Post by Falar on May 15, 2007 7:27:10 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear that Enchant, could you possibly PM the link to me? I too have a number of forums and I would like to be aware of such thiefs and know of a place to look if something is wrong.
I strongly support you in your desicion.
Edit: I didn't recieve an email either.
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Post by Weird Rob 87 on May 15, 2007 8:00:04 GMT -5
Friggin thieves.. I too haven't received an email. Something is wrong here...
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Post by Enchant on May 15, 2007 8:52:15 GMT -5
No one recieved an Email...the mass email thingy must not be working...oi....
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Post by Enchant on Jan 16, 2008 23:09:26 GMT -5
I am sad to say it has happened AGAIN....this layout is under 2 weeks old and it has been ripped. Not only the graphics but the coding....Fortunately...My coder notified me off it...HE is very good at his job..Thank goodness....Aarghh....I am not feeling very nice at the moment.
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Post by magicmist82 on Jan 24, 2008 23:02:28 GMT -5
Stealing is definitely not the way to go, copying identical topics is rather wrong too, however, I really don't agree with the fact that no one should ever use any of the topics. For many years I've been inspired by certain topics on various boards and twisted them my own way for my own forum. It is impossible that people can come up with absolutely everything themselves.That's not quite how things work. Not only am I talking of forums, but I'm taking a lot more into consideration. I mean, let's take fashion, so if one sees someone wearing some pretty red scarf and then decides they like it and buy a similar one themselves. Is that thieving? Not quite. Back onto forum issues now, so unless you mean that someone has copied everything from your forum to theirs, or let's say, the biggest part, I really don't think it is very nice to report someone. Anyway, that's what I think about the issue, I do apologize if I misunderstood something about this issue or the scale of it, but I really don't think it is uncommon.
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Post by Enchant on Jan 25, 2008 8:46:50 GMT -5
Stealing is definitely not the way to go, copying identical topics is rather wrong too, however, I really don't agree with the fact that no one should ever use any of the topics. For many years I've been inspired by certain topics on various boards and twisted them my own way for my own forum. It is impossible that people can come up with absolutely everything themselves.That's not quite how things work. Not only am I talking of forums, but I'm taking a lot more into consideration. I mean, let's take fashion, so if one sees someone wearing some pretty red scarf and then decides they like it and buy a similar one themselves. Is that thieving? Not quite. Back onto forum issues now, so unless you mean that someone has copied everything from your forum to theirs, or let's say, the biggest part, I really don't think it is very nice to report someone. Anyway, that's what I think about the issue, I do apologize if I misunderstood something about this issue or the scale of it, but I really don't think it is uncommon. Being inspired by something is cool, I am all for inspiration...I hope that I do inspire people... its copycats and thiefs I have issue with... This last person was trying to make the exact forum layout as mine...fortunately it is all coded to this url They took my graphics and coding.... The previous one took all my board titles and descriptions...you being an admin of your own forum, know how hard it can be sometimes to be creative...it was like I do all the work and then they get to enjoy the credit... I even had some take my postings....and there was never any credit to the EE. If I use an article or a post... I ALWAYS try to give credit or link to where it originated from... But yeah....when I try to come up with RPG's or stories, I am usually inspired by previous authors works.
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Post by magicmist82 on Jan 25, 2008 9:33:22 GMT -5
Oh that totally makes sense now, stealing everything is absolutely appaling! I definitely do know what it means when it takes hours to think of board names and descriptions and even topics, so it's totally disgusting to steal all that and claim them as yours. I'm not even talking about layouts, those sometimes take weeks as a lot of inspiration!
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