Another Petopian Website?

[Litlemouse]

And *POOF* yay it's gone!
Hope she learned her lesson

[Kalliope]

And a message to our little troll.....you're welcome.

[AdamSavage]

stop giving the little attention whore more attention

I don't think I've ever heard you talk like that before. Then again, I don't blame you either.

[Mania]

I told Moderator to leave this open for now because I think it's an interesting subject in general. Another more general thread - say in Off-Topic Chat - might be a better place to open the whole can of worms, though. *hand on chin in classic thinking pose*

There are two sites that mimic Petopia proper that annoy the hell out of me. One of them uses 'Petopia' as a generic noun, which is just weird (and more than a little disrespectful to Brash, in my eyes, since their About page pretends that the real Petopia doesn't exist), and the other is *still* using the images off the old dark green Petopia as their own although I asked them to stop. (Blizzard owns all the actual pet data, of course, but we (players) arguably have some small claim on the particular images we generate.)

But neither of those other sites is up to date and neither of them has this community. And the internet being what it is, it's often just not worth it to bother.

Copying forum content is an entirely new beast to me, though - so to speak. As someone else in this thread pointed out, there's not a whole lot of point to it and it is very, very weird. It bugs me a lot because it's not someone copying a word or some images, but someone stealing your words. That's just not right. At this point it doesn't look like I'll need to take action, but I am glad that it was brought to our attention so we can handle it if we have to.

There's been a significant delay on moderator response times lately.

Some things wait for me to drag my lazy butt out of bed.

[Lisaara]

I thought the discussion was definitely interesting and amusing all the same.

Yeah I think thats what bothered a lot of people....copying the forum word for word, even right down the topics themselves......thats just damn creepy.

[Kalliope]

Aye, and this was unfortunately not one of them. >_< On the plus side, once legal implications were brought into the mix, our attempted troll quickly backed down.

Hopefully whatever spurred this to happen in the first place has been resolved. And if it really was only a cry for attention, well, hopefully our anonymous forum thief understands now that there are better ways of getting attention.

[Litlemouse]

Aye, and this was unfortunately not one of them. >_< On the plus side, once legal implications were brought into the mix, our attempted troll quickly backed down.

Hopefully whatever spurred this to happen in the first place has been resolved. And if it really was only a cry for attention, well, hopefully our anonymous forum thief understands now that there are better ways of getting attention.

Exactly. If we had had to actually take action legally... >.> well it would've gotten worse I'm sure.
I'm still assuming it was some stupid bored person who wanted to play a joke :/ I just hope it wasn't somebody here from this website... although it probably is ._.

[Kalliope]

I'm still assuming it was some stupid bored person who wanted to play a joke :/ I just hope it wasn't somebody here from this website... although it probably is ._.

Oh, I'm sure it was. No one else would care. As long as she understands how completely stupid the whole thing was, then hopefully she'll find a more constructive way of drawing attention to herself in the future.

[cowmuflage]

I know who it is *points finger at Litlemouse* Litlemouse! You can't trsut little things! hahaha just joshing.

[Saturo]

Meh, it was fun while it lasted. :D

[cowmuflage]

Can I point my finger at you? Its fun!

[Saturo]

Hmm? Oh, I didn't do it. My grammar is significantly better.

[Mania]

Can I point my finger at you? Its fun!

My father used to say: "Don't point fingers unless you don't mind losing them."

In retrospect, my father was a bit creepy.

[Saturo]

That's actually pretty sound advice, Mania. ^^

[cowmuflage]

Oh true I need my fingers....... Hmmmm I'm gunna go now *walks of into the sunset even tho its morning*

[Litlemouse]

I know who it is *points finger at Litlemouse* Litlemouse! You can't trsut little things! hahaha just joshing.

Whaat? Meeee? xD

[Mania]

I would request, however - and I realize that I just blew this myself (sorry!) - that we either keep this on topic or let me lock it.

[Litlemouse]

I would request, however - and I realize that I just blew this myself (sorry!) - that we either keep this on topic or let me lock it.

Oh yeah, whoopsie

[cowmuflage]

Oh sorry XD

On topic I'm glad she did not copy anyones art work as then she could get in even more trouble!

[Litlemouse]

Oh sorry XD

On topic I'm glad she did not copy anyones art work as then she could get in even more trouble!

Oh my that would be so jerk...-ey of her if she did that :O glad she didn't