[capys]

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Okay so I've bottled this up for a long time now, but apparently being passive aggressive towards no one anyone here should know is totally soothing. orz orz orz

Simply put: fuck you. Fuck you from the bottom of my heart to the depths of the ocean and probably into that little dank crevice from whence you came, you irrational, illogical and petulant skank. wow i've never called anyone a skank before i feel bad already orz How you could even come to the conclusions you have, with the evidence your own damn forum gives - save for your quasi-boyfriend of a staff member who is over zealous and over-protective and frankly a nosy bastard who only serves to exacerbate situations - is completely beyond me.

But let's get to the point.

That skin belongs to me. You stole it. Changing colours and switching images to replicas of what I had before does not change that fact. My CSS is still in the headers and footers. My name is, fair enough, credited for the layout. But to suddenly bar me from accessing my own things, and then follow it up by banning me from ever giving anyone any codes ever and then follow that up with forcing your own staff to surrender their intellectual property to you is just beyond insane.

And now everyone is afraid to talk about it in the cbox.
Because they're scared of you.

But I'm not afraid. I know that even though you told me you were happy with how shitty your forum looked and that I should get a life, it eats you up inside. I know you're still planning on using my layout for this next concoction of ill-advised colours you call a skin, on pinning my name as the originator of that disgust.

I also know you said I could never make codes to be used in your forum again. Which means you can't use my fucking layout, you dumb hoe.

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So that's out and uhm. It helped marginally? >.>? Don't get how it works for you guys but hey, to each their own.

What I want to know is, should I bring this up? Not literally the rant itself, but uhm, the issue of her continuing to use my layout despite her own rejection of anything that has my name on it. I don't want her to use my things anymore, and ultimately its her forum that suffers because she's being obstinate and refusing to face facts. I don't know. If I do she'll probably ban me - she's a veritable Earl of Lemongrab - and I do actually have friends there who sorta kinda look out for me sorta kinda. Is it worth it? Is it worth justice at the potential cost of hanging out with my cyber-bros and sisses?

It's a complicated situation, I'll admit. What happened was I was removed from staff, and she persisted to use my skin - which, at the time, I didn't mind too much. Then they started changing other codes I had made on the forum to display things in a way that wasn't average. Things that had my credits on. And they didn't tell me, at all. I didn't find out anything until I stumbled upon it, looking for things for a new member. I inquired about this with another staff member, and then another staff member (the quasi-boyfriend) started mouthing off about how condescending I was being and about how they didn't need my permission to edit my codes. I calmly replied that I wasn't asking for permission, simply the knowledge that such an editing was going on - and that was when I was banned from the cbox for arguing with staff. The admin (the skank) and come in and decided that I was being unreasonable - and despite my later attempts to broach the fact that telling someone you're editing the things they've made for you is not only common courtesy, but coder culture, I was met with the cold shoulder.

And of course, the advice of learning to obtain a life.

So again, I ask.
What do?

[tsu]

personally, I wouldn't have let them do what they wanted with the skin. whether they liked it or not. its still something you took the time to put together and make it your own. the reason why the skin has YOUR name on it. the fact that you were calm and they were getting their panties all up in a bunch simple means that they're cunts. sorry if they're you're friends and all but they are. you just don't go and change something that SOMEONE ELSE has placed alot of work into. you just don't. I know I would have gotten pissed at the fact that I wasn't told changes were made. shit, I would have flipped a table because for me.. everything I make is my baby and I spent hours making and no bitch, you can't change anything. although, this is how I feel personally. now, as to what you should do, I can't really tell you exactly. just simply ask them to take off your stuff if they're not happy with what they have. god. even when making a template inspired off of someone's skin, I still ask permission, because its common sense and courtesy. if they have none of that. fuck them and tell them to go jump off a bridge and either take off your stuff or leave it as it is. o.o

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[GMOT]

River, that woman is retarded. I've said it, so has several other people. She just flips shit over nothing, and she's just a terrible admin. I don't understand how that site is still running, in all honesty. The staff member I know, is only on there because he wants to stay on the people's side.The head admin is a vindictive bitch and nothing more to it. I remember when I heard about that incident, I think that's when I decided I wasn't joining that forum. I don't understand how she could be so unfair. Did you see her new skin? It kinda made my eyes want to cry. I wouldn't be lurking over there if everyone wasn't you know, there. She's never treat me bad, or been really stupid to me, but the things she's said, oh my god.

The way she checks characters kind of pisses me off too. In the end, Riv.

She's just stupid.

I'd have her take it down.

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[katya]

Personally, I wouldn't much care because... I don't really care about things like that. If someone changed a skin of mine enough that I didn't want my name on it anymore, I'd ask them to remove the credit, but it sounds like that's not what you're upset about.

As for advice though... you can hate her forever if that suits you, I know it's hard to just brush it all aside, but as you say, it's ultimately the forum that suffers. Do you care about the other rpers at the forum, who I assume aren't at fault for any of this? Can the site survive the drama? Is anything even going to happen if you push the issue? Obviously, if you don't give two fucks about any of the above, or you think it'll all be fine, then do your thing. You'll hopefully feel better for it, although ngl I don't think the admin will feel very chastised. Stay civil though--it doesn't really matter if they don't deserve it, shit won't get done if shit's only being flung around.

Btw, you're only worried about not being able to hang out with everyone after you're banned, nah. If they don't bother keeping contact with you after you're off the site, they weren't very good e-friends to begin with.


Anyway, on an adminly note:
Step back on the personal attacks, guys. Lbr, the animanga community is not so big that we can't guess who's who. We want GS to be a positive place with warm fuzzy feelings abound, a place for puking rainbows and farting sunshine. Obviously, if people are fed up and stressed and hurt, we care and we want to help. However, we don't want to be swimming in negativity here, okay?