I applaud your courage

written on June 19, 2010 in Stupid People

And stupidity. I tweeted¹, but never blogged about it because I didn’t see the need to make a big ass deal about it. But the girl who pretty much just copied my design had to nerve to tweet me today and accuse ME of “making a big deal” out of the situation and “destroying her site“. Never have I mentioned her name or her Twitter account, I simply stated that she copied my design and that I was angry. But since you’re accusing me of something I didn’t do, I may as well do it now so at least you can be right about something.

I did want to contact her privately, but she had no email, no contact form, and her comment form would not approve my comments. So I went to her host, freehostia, and they obviously suspended her account. Yet she had the nerves to move her copied designs to a private host, so again, I had to contact Surpass Hosting, since I still didn’t have the girl or her hosts’ contact information. Now at least her host was smart and knew that copying was wrong, and I thought this girl knew too in the sincere email she sent me, so I let it go.

Now out of nowhere this morning, the girl tweets me this morning and says:

Oh, come on. You didn’t have to make a big deal about that site². I really don’t understand why you couldn’t have discussed it calmly with me before getting my whole site destroyed. And it’s not like I blatantly went out and claimed that layout as my own. Also, I didn’t mean coded it completely myself by making my own theme. I meant I didn’t use YOUR coding.

Yeah, she just used the coding from the Plainscape WP theme without credit before. So I replied back, and here’s her reply:

Of course it does, I listed it in my credits section :9 And you know that I didn’t know it was wrong to do that³. Now I do, so it won’t be happening anymore. I just didn’t see why you had to tell EVERYONE⁴ about such a little thing⁵, I don’t even have a lot of visitors and it would have been simple to wait. But no, my host took down my site because you contacted HER host and got her in trouble for what I did⁶, and I just thought that was very rude. Yes, what I did was rude too, but I didn’t know that it was such a wrong thing to do⁷.

And to my current Twitter status, she writes:

And stop being so rude about it⁸, I was just calmly asking you not to tell the whole world about a mistake I made one time⁹, geez.

Since I feel bad for spamming my followers with arguments with a squat like her, I didn’t reply. No use arguing with an idiot anyways¹⁰. They just drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. I’ll let you all be the judges of her action.Error processing request