Comments on: Ideas copied from Chocolate Insanity forum spread faster

by: Me,My Coke, And I » Forums: What’s Up?

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:47:00 +0000

[…] -Chocolate Insanity: surprisingly i could find nothing new to talk about in this forum, as i have said enough about it here. […]

by: Nick

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:23:05 +0000

Why donâ�?��?�t call it sharing? Because in sharing you actually get permission. I don’t mind when they ask me, but most don’t. And I’m not necessarily the inventor of the feature, I came up with it, but it’s proablybeen used, I was just the first one to come up with it without seeing it somewhere else in this [b]community[/b].

by: Shadow

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:14:35 +0000

Oh oops, I didn’t mean stealing as in illegal stealing. I meant the “stealing of ideas”, just the way I happened to put it…

by: Allen

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:20:48 +0000

XPDude, I was talking about the specific community of admins that know each other around, particullary from Snooty Sims and Pink Imoen

And another thing, i’d actually like you to quote me saying that Nick Invented this feature, is that possible by reading the article? rhetorical question…

Ugly? i think it’s mostly sad, and it is copying, when one day after you’ve put a new feature and proud of it, and just the second day you see more than 20 forums having it, hell it is!

Besides that, i don’t think that one who has never owned a forum can really rate something like that, since it does contain emotions, and it’s alot of emotions when someone copies you, trust me.

Why didn’t i call it sharing? hmmm…cause i simply think copying is more fit for this kind of act.

Heat

by: XPDude

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:10:44 +0000

Unfair judgement. How can you be EXACTLY, 100% sure that a particular forum “invented” a “feature”? (In this case, CI)

No offense, but I’ve seen this “Pic of the Day” in a Singapore forum in 2000, and it was hot then.

And it’s not necessary copying or stealing… don’t make it sound so ugly. Why don’t call it sharing?

Sharing ideas sound good to me

by: Allen

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:03:38 +0000

@Nick: No Problems dude, i don't even think you should thank me, i wasn't doing this for Chocolate Insanity, really! i'm doing this for the sake of creativity and forums-future. Shadow: I'd actually like to make a point here, it is important to me personally to emphasize that i actually mean copying and not stealing, those people aren't doing something legally prohibited, but i do look at it as an unethical manner. When it comes to forum graphics stealing, that's another issue that does touch the illegal feild of the issue, therefore it is stealing.

by: Shadow

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:51:20 +0000

What made Nick’s “picture of the week” special is the fact that he put it on the index, his is the first forum (in our community) that I’ve seen do that. I am very angry that other forums copied that detail, I’ve even told a few admins this already…

I am getting tired of all this stealing. Recently people have started to steal my forum graphics…

Thanks for saying something Heat, someone had to.

by: Nick

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:31:26 +0000

Heh, thanks Heat. I noticed that too. It’s really annoying when they don’t ask me, and then when I ask them about it their response:
“Ahhh…..omfg i liek totahlay have no ideuh waht ur talkin about!!!!111″
I hate it. But, that’s life. And that makes my ideas seem less original.

@Purchase: What’s that? It may have been used before, but I didn’t copy it, others copied it from me.

Also guys, when people do that, it hurts the forum you’re copying from, though you really don’t care. lol.Like I’ve tried to come up with new idea. I’ve only gotten one new one recently…Quiz of the day. A question is asked abnnd the first member to answer it wins……no prizes guys. and I’d appreciate it if at least most people wouldn’tmcopy this one either,or else my forum is screwed, because I’m fresh out of ideas, so there probably won’t be much to copy after that. lol

by: Allen

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 20:35:46 +0000

@ Natalie: that was certainly not the goal behind the article, every forum that is being taken care of is worth keeping up, adn yours is. i was talking about one specific problem with mostly all forums, i don’t want you to feel guilty by reading this article, the traget behind this article is a little bit of thought and creativity provocation .

Purchase: As i said before, i talk about this close community that is pretty much admins that are/was members of Snootysims since we’re still in contact..Nick has certainly brought a good feature to forums, that’s for sure.

A.H

by: Purchase

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:57:28 +0000

Nick may be the inventer of Pic of the Week for forums.. but Pixel2Life was the first I’ve seen have it for a site.

by: Natalie

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:10:09 +0000

This is a great article, it actually madee me feel guilty for actually using some of other people’s ideas, that it makes me think that is my forum really worth keeping up if it’s considered ‘not unique’