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Excuse me, but I believe you are copying Chains of Convictions ideas which is considered stealing. You are making a bad impression for this forum. This is very similar to Chronica's post that was created in 25 Jun 2010 from chains of conviction that was called MASS USER ART!! It had the same idea, but I believe you had copied it. We had a banner contest before you guys had one, and after we finished our first one, yours had appeared which implies that you had copied our ideas. We do not like you copying our ideas and please get your own ideas. Your site is dead and having these special events are not going to bring them up.
The fact is, very few members of LCN actually visit that forum, and I don't think any of them are in the core group. If you think that Chains has any influence on us, then it's a sign of an overdeveloped sense of Chains' importance.
To address your claims broadly, I don't know if Vahn knew anything about your site specifically, but
- What he does is his own choice, and to go around accusing us as a community for his actions is fairly silly.
- That being said, you should be flattered that someone took "your" idea.
- That being said, you don't own the idea. If anything, it belongs to the member that brought it to your board. You have no right to embarrass said member with claims of idea ownership.
- That being said, your member probably doesn't own the idea either. It seems like an idea that would naturally pop up in online communities, and as Rhia has said, she's seen it before that forum even existed. You wouldn't complain that your member stole the idea, I'm sure. That's what's called a double standard.
- Even ignoring everything above, why are you so miserly with "your" ideas? I remember distinctly that I went to your forum and told you outright that you could use any data that I ripped for LCN. Is this your gratitude?
I'm one of those people on this forum who's always trying to convince other people that third people aren't so bad, and by making such drama with such an inane and frivolous accusation, you are NOT helping the long-held impression that you're a bunch of whiny dramatic immature brats.
As for your last statement, that's petty and hateful. The reason that many of your members left this site is that many of our core members are hateful and
malicious, and it baffles me that you would even say something that could stir up that hate. Fortunately for you, as I said before, you're just not that important to the core members of this site. I really don't think I need to defend against it, but our chat room is still active, which is part of the reason why the board isn't.
P.S. The banner at the top of "Death of Blue"? That was due to a banner contest, from like 2004. Why didn't we accuse you of stealing the idea? Because no one that was here back then visits your site. Because most of us don't visit your site. Because we don't know whether you took the idea from us. Because we don't care, since it's incredibly petty and small-minded to think that we own the idea. Choose your own reason, but think about that.