Comments on: WordPress Theme Releases for 5/16

By: xiaomo

xiaomo — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:25:07 +0000

I like the first and the last one~

By: kailoon

kailoon — Wed, 21 May 2008 11:37:38 +0000

wow … is it going to be a war? relax I understand that the feeling of being rip off. I will just think in this way, people copy my work because of the quality of it

forgiveness a kind of brave attitude.

Just my 2cents Have a nice day!

By: srik

srik — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:30:55 +0000

@Mosey

Double standards? Its more of better utilization on my available resources.

Distribution sites like wltc is more likely to act on complaints than those ripoff artist sites, no distribution = no ripoff’s

and yes i have released many themes for wordpress and no i don’t want you ungreatfull people using my themes so don’t ask which ones.

By: Mosey

Mosey — Tue, 20 May 2008 23:04:24 +0000

@Nathan Rice: Sorry to disappoint you, but I’m not *the* SP. Apologies!

By: Nathan Rice

Nathan Rice — Tue, 20 May 2008 22:40:01 +0000

@Mosey,
SP, is that you???

By: Mosey

Mosey — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:24:14 +0000

Well said, Jeff!

@Michelle: Alas I don’t know where a certain someone’s themes/plugins are at the moment (maybe because I am a small potato and am ignorant about certain issues) although clearly from their pov, he/she must be some ‘hot shot big name’ that contributes tonnes towards the WP community. Ah well…

p/s: And with regards to friends? I quote from a certain comment #33:

…we defend each other.

Double standards, evidently.

By: srik

srik — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:25:24 +0000

done done done

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:15:22 +0000

@Srik I don’t know anyone else here. And since more than one person has pointed out that your tone/attitude are unneccessary, maybe you should follow your own advice.

Especially since I thought you were done arguing with me?

By: srik

srik — Tue, 20 May 2008 20:12:27 +0000

@Michelle,

I have stopped talking about wltc after comment19, they have removed the offending themes etc.

Since then i have been defending myself from useless comments like yours, read it all again if you care.

And yes, i took it up with people who ripped off my themes and anyone who promotes those scumbags.

wltc made a mistake, i pointed out and they fixed it, what exactly is your problem here? if they are offended with my tone they can talk to me, you and your friends can shut up.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:59:05 +0000

Not as clueless as you think, I’ve understood most of what you’ve written. But you are totally IGNORING every time someone tells you that you need to take your grievances over this theme theft to the people who are stealing your themes. WLTC has removed the stolen themes, so quit being a jerk to them. It’s a simple concept but it’s appparently 52 million miles over your head.

By: srik

srik — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:28:37 +0000

@Michelle
you obviously are clueless, no point in arguing with you

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:54:40 +0000

@Srik - It is not WLTC’s fault that your themes are being ripped off. If that’s your big concern, you need to be going after the people who are actually copying your themes. WLTC has nothing to do with that.

If you think this common sense approach to solving the problem is “irrelevant,” then you need more help than WLTC and the WP community can provide you.

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:36:53 +0000

Well, after some investigative work, you can see that Keith has removed the thumbnail and link to the Liberty theme. I believe the discussion of it being a rip off should take place on http://www.gazellecreative.com.....s-release/ and by the way, notice the date on that post, Feb 20th LOL.

By: srik

srik — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:51:55 +0000

@Michelle

why will i go away instead of fighting for my themes from being ripped off? who cares about what other passerby’s think about me? this site did not remove the offending theme even after providing proof for over a week, where the where you then?

your opinion is irrelevant, nobody’s opinion is relevant, the facts speak for them self.

respect depends on your actions, if they would act on ripoff reports, i wouldn’t have disrespected them, but a little disrespect made them up their work, thats my contribution to the site, whats yours? making useless comments?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:27:50 +0000

@ Srik : My comment still stands - if you don’t like the way this site is run, go away and create your own. You seem to have all the answers, go apply your knowledge elsewhere. You can defend your themes without being a jerk to the people who run this site. Are you reading the comments here? Sensing a theme?.

By: Mosey

Mosey — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:23:34 +0000

@Srik: I never said I’ve never been on the receiving end of rip-offs, although in my case, they weren’t Wordpress themes/plugins, but some graphics and written work online.

I’m pretty sure it would be safe to say that most people will have experienced a case of copy-cat at some point, but personally I found those two articles very helpful in changing the way I think about how to deal with such incidents. i.e. I still experience the inital ‘omg, how could you *anger* rah grr-ness’ but then I think about what I can do to make my work even better.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:09:57 +0000

Srik - People are allowed to make mistakes. You should be attacking those who steal themes, not those who inadvertently promote them.

By: Srik

Srik — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:08:54 +0000

Mosey, well like i said you all will say anything until you are at the receiving end… and like i said its not about making the mistakes, its about correcting them…

By: Mosey

Mosey — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:17:38 +0000

I’m just a small potato, but seriously, Srik, with all due respect for your dedication to WP/stance against rip-offs, it is difficult to *not* find the multiple (brash) comments a little over the top I’m afraid.

With regards to calmness when one’s own work is ripped off: there are two excellent articles (WP-related, can you believe it?) which I really like. One is by Ma.tt (which other?) entitled “Price of Freedom” http://ma.tt/2007/07/price-of-freedom/ and the other (response post) entitled ‘Turning the other cheek’ is by Mark Ghosh, available: http://weblogtoolscollection.c.....her-cheek/

Just because of one or two mistakes doesn’t mean that one should completely write-off a site. Who hasn’t made mistakes before in the blogging world especially?

By: Srik

Srik — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:05:12 +0000

@Nathan,

You tend to loose respect if they don’t act, which reflects in your attitude.

you can say things like cool it etc when you are not ripped off, i am sure you won’t when you are on the receiving end