February 2008

Do you know what the worst part about owning a premade graphic website is? For each person its different, but for me it is probably this: People assume that since it is made for public use, it is theirs to claim. I've had people take my premade icons and claim them as their own, and I've even had people take whole layouts, edit out my credit link, and say that they made it.


This case is slightly different. I just saw a few minutes ago, someone took a premade layout, this one in particular, changed the colors and inserted their own images and content, and gave a pathetic link back to me in their introductory paragraph. I'm too pissed off right now to care about anything other than ranting, so I'm sorry if I sound harsh/bitchy/whatever.


So, what's the problem if they provided a link back? Here is the screenshot. Well, there are a few problems. First of all, I was never fucking asked. Anyone with a decent amount of courtesy would have made even the smallest effort to e-mail me and ask for permission to edit the coding that took ME a few good hours to construct. Second, there is this. It looks remarkably similar, yes? Its by the same person, who didn't even bother putting in a pathetic link like in the first example. Third, obviously this is someone who knows enough about coding to edit mine, so why not just make your own fucking code?


After a bit of thinking, I realized what this is. Laziness. Why make your own code when someone has already made code? What does it matter if you take it - its just a premade. And why bother dropping me an e-mail asking if you can edit it? Because in the amount of time it could have taken me to respond, you could have just made your own layout, am I right? Its far easier to just take the code and pretend you give a shit about it by linking me back in your fucking introduction.


I suppose its my fault for not making it clear in my Terms of Service that I don't want my code edited. Its my fault because I made simple, easy rules so my users wont be overwhelmed by all of the fucking rules. Sorry, but there is now a 6th rule in my TOS. I'm fucking sick of this shit.

Hieica died @ 8:23 PM on 02/03/08
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