Thread: Does anyone get annoyed?

Does anyone get annoyed?

I know it is the nature of the beast (with the internet) but was just wondering if anyone who has posted their site here in "showcase and feedback" have been annoyed by people copying your code? or better yet... content?

I just found a guy who copied a whole page and simply replaced my name with his. The worst of it is the guy asked me to help him with something unrelated a few days ago in this forum and I pointed him to the thread that would help him.

I am more than willing to "give" but I have a problem with "taking".

Maybe I am just having a bad day. I need a beer.

Re: Does anyone get annoyed?

that sucks man.. props to you for helping and throw that full beer can at the "taker"!

Re: Does anyone get annoyed?

Welcome to the world of the interweb.

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I know you have offered me help and it was greatly appreciated -although, I couldn't figure out the code

So have a beer on me!

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Send a love letter to his host and ask them to close him down ASP! Also report him to Google Adsense Have fun!

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From all the people that have ask me about my site in the showcase i would hate to know how many have ended up copying it. Its ok though, wordpress is mostly GPL so you just learn to live with it.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery..........drink beer, you are obviously doing a good job!!

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That was my thinking when I was inspired by the ** site in the showcase. I'm setting myself up for a kicking here but I have copied that site design. Kudos to Yumiko I think it's a beautiful site in both design and simplicity and was exactly what I wanted with nested blogs and forum. In fact it was her site that made my mind up to buy classipress.

I wouldn't dream of taking any content or code, I simply reverse engineered how she made it and what themes she used. I'm quite good technically but a bit challenged when it comes to design.

I sympathise with you getting your stuff ripped off like that, especially as the guy had the nerve to ask you for help!
I'm not in the same market place or country as ** so we are not competitors and all I did was copy which template was being used and the general structure, I hope that hasn't annoyed anyone. If it has, especially Yumiko, I shall happily change the template, as it is still being developed anyway.

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I don't have a problem with someone mirroring someone's site or using it as base or template to go from but I do have a problem with simply copying someones code and putting up the same site with a different company name. (copying text is a whole other matter) I figure if someone can copy and implement the code then they certainly can come up with a different color scheme and some different graphics... you know what I mean.

I came across a backlink a month ago to a site that uses classipress. I have never seen them on this forum and they had copied my footer and simply changed the company name (nothing else). They never even bothered to save the images on their own server. They we're still pulling them from mine. I emailed them but didn't get a reply so yesterday I "inadvertently" changed some images on my server which seems to have inadvertently added some not so nice images on their ads site.

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Thanks for the compliment I can't say I'm annoyed at all (probably because you're in a different country ) - although have to admit if someone from New Zealand copied the actual purpose of the website, as well as content I'd be annoyed. Happy to hear I indirectly encouraged you to buy ClassiPress though

*ahem* For the record, I think I can claim rights as first person in NZ to use CP :P