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Random musings from the PaperDemon admin.

It's 3am so this post may be a little sloppy. Here's the WHOLE story!

Today (yesterday now that it's passed midnight) I banned a member on PaperDemon.com. This dude was rude! He posted an artwork of Chibi James Hetfield and he made me a bit suspicious. Whenever a person posts art and doesn't provide much in the description, it raises a red flag. Most artists talk about their process in their descriptions or inspiration or something. This dude wrote something like "It's Chibi James Hetfield" in the description.

So all I did was ask him what he used to color it. He said something like "Oh my uncle is an artist and he did it for me with something called Photoshop 7.0. Sorry I don't know much about computers." (Sorry that I don't have exact quotes. I'll explain the reason why later in this post.)

Well I thaught by IT he meant the whole art piece. I said plainly something like "Sorry but you aren't allowed to post artwork that isn't yours."

He replied saying something like "I drew it he just colored it. are you calling me a liar?"

I then replied saying that I never accused him of such a thing, however, he still needs to give credit where it is due. I asked him to please edit the description of his artwork to say that his uncle colored it.

It did raise another red flag with me when he got all defensive like that. I never accused him of plagiarism. I was merely stating what the rules of the site are. There are times where people post art for their family or friends which goes against my site rules. Sometimes people just misunderstand the purpose of the site and think that they can just post cool pics. I just thought this was one of those instances. By the way, that whole conversation was going on in the comments/reviews section of his artwork. Instead of replying to me there, he sends me the following message:

I really find it offensive. The next time you decide to put a comment on here that implys that i am a "liar", make sure you know all the facts before hand. I can understand though why you think that I did not draw this, but you have to give the benefit of the doubt. My uncle helped in the making of this, so, I guess you could say that I didn't draw this. But the matter of the fact is; I most certainly drew it.
Please next time, before you get all inclinde to tell me i'm a "fraud", just simply ask a qustion, and I will gladly answer it.

Woah! Another red flag! "i guess you could say that I didn't draw this. but the matter of the fact is; i most certainly drew it." which is the truth here? I then started to type a reply telling him he's way out of line giving me that tone of voice when I realized there was another message from him. before hitting the Send Reply button, I decided to read his second message:

I'm going to delete my picture off of this site. Like you actually care, but I do. I am not plagiaristic.

I decided instead to send him my reply via email just incase I scared him away from the site. As I was typing it I decided I might as well ban him. I didn't really think he plagiarized but besides that, he was just really rude. I spend a lot of time developing that site and for him to be so ungrateful for the service I provide at no charge really made me mad.

As I was writing the email, I went to the original artwork to quote my words specifically so that I could show him that he was overreacting. I found that all of the comments were gone. I knew he didn't hav ethe privilages to do so and then realized that he had actually deleted his artwork and reposted it! The turd probably did it to get rid of my posts!

So I banned him for rudeness as well as suspicious behavior and appended the standard "you are bannished from paperdemon.com, etc." to the email. Later, I thaught just for kicks I'd do a google search to see if I could find that artwork anywhere else on the net. I did infact find it and found that this turd MetallicaOne isn't the original artist and did plagiarize. I immediately notified the two original artists. I'm considering sending this turd Christopher another email. I've documented his IP address and online activity as per my usual procedure in these cercumstances.

Because of this incodent with him deleting his own artwork to remove my posts, I've reworked the way paperdemon.com handles deleted entries. From now on, art entries aren't really deleted. They are just "moved" to another part of the site that only I have access to and is locked in place. Also, the comments aren't deleted unless I specifically delete them. Members can't edit their comments once an artwork is "moved" however the comments page for the artwork still is visible to the public. The artwork itself isn't though. This isn't just to prevent this same sort of occurence. In the past, I've hastily deleted artwork before documenting it when I knew it was plagiarized or was a type of art that wasn't allowed on the site.

What's funny and sort of sad is this guy might as well have painted PLAGIARIST in big red letters on his forehead because he was so overly defensive. I think he knew he was going to get caught and that's why he made that dirty post in my chatbox on paperdemon.com. If any of you saw it, it was funny and sad and dirty. I documented it before removing it. So sad. Thank God these plagiarists are stupid! They just beg to be caught!

I can't believe the audacity of this little turd! His private message was so darn rude! It's like he's trying to boss me around! It's my site and you better play nice or I'll ban you. Maybe he didn't even know that I was the site administrator. But how could he miss? My alias is the only alias that shows up in red letters. I dunno. It boggles my mind. I just can't believe it. Everytime one of these plagiarizing bastards comes along it just doesn't compute why someone would do such a thing.

Edit: OMG I just realized the little duche bag made the following post in my chatbox as well:

I'm interested in misappropriating everyone pictures.

Misappropriating means stealing! Thanks to EvilBunnySlippers for pointing this out to me. What a crazy art thief! He basically told us he's a thief!

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