Writing section will be closed Friday. Pagiarist banned.

The Writing section in both the Red Curtain and in Paper Demon will be CLOSED most of the day friday while I perform site maintenence.

You know all of those weird characters you've been seeing in the writing section? Well, I'm finally going to have a chance to fix them. Basically what happened was during the site move, the fancy* versions of the apostrophies and double quotes got converted into weird symbols, probably because this symbol isn't really supported by the web and the text format the data was backed up in. It is fixable though.

I will shut down the writing section and do some good ol' Find and Replace on the text. I will also do that formatting I promised I would do to make the writing section more compatable with FCK editor. This compatability issue creates big gaps between paragraphs. This will also be fixed, at least for preventing gaps, when I shut down the writing section.

*By fancy, I mean the curly versions of ' and ". Normally, when you type a single or double quote, it is the web safe version. But when you type in a word processor such as Microsoft Word, those characters are converted into curled symbols which aren't web safe and aren't included in all text character sets.

Some Design Changes
On another note, I've also changed the display font in the forum to be that of the font in the FCK editor so that it's easier to preview your forum post.

In Other News
On Monday, I had to ban another member. Actually, I banned him a few months ago for abusing Paper Demon for promotional purposes. He created a new account though and posted artwork that wasn't even his. He made me even more angry by posting more than the limit of three images at a time. This guy KNEW about it and didn't care. He was even warned by another member about it but he just didn't listen.

I banned him whilst he was still online and posting art but bannishment doesn't take effect until the next time the member logs on. I had a problem there because he just kept on posting, even though I was deleting his work from the site. So I took a look at his online activity and noticed something cool; he had a static IP address!  WHAM! I banned him via IP address so he couldn't access the site anymore.

I don't know if any of you saw, but he did make a couple posts in the forum advertising his contest. I would have deleted them but I wanted to have a public record of his activities. Did any of you visit his website to see his contest rules? DON'T SEND HIM YOUR ARTWORK! By sending him your art, you are forfeiting all rights to the work. It says it right in his contest rules. So basically he is geting in work from his contest and then posting it on art sites, claiming it as his own work! This is the lowest of lows! Feel free to flame! His email addresses are HYGHTEK@hotmail.com and HYGHTEK@yahoo.com

What kind of person do you have to be to do this sort of thing? He needs to be ducktaped to our Shame Tree with the other plagiarists.

On Oct 12, 2005 3:24 pm, BogusRed said:

A disgusting scum-eating morally depraved criminal is what kind of person would do this sort of thing.  Not only did he put in his contest rules that artists forfeit their right to the work and aren’t allowed to put their names on the work, but he also stipulated that:

 

 “You must visit my site and click it ad sense ads in advertisement at least 50 times per entry.(to raise more money for the contest.)… You must click the ad sense daily to add to the money….You must help support the site by clicking my advertisements.”

 

What a crook! I really hope that not too many people bought all his gobbledygook   I saw a few pictures on his site already, but hopefully most of them are not from other artists.

 

Anyway, this dude is so full of crap I don’t think the duct tape will be strong enough to hold him up there with all that extra weight.  We should power staple his ass upside down to the top branch of our plagiarism tree and persuade little kids to throw sticks and rocks at him by offering them candy for a direct hit.

He'll never get artists to submit to his contest... even Noobs aren't that gulliable. All he'll get is other people just like him ripping off art to submit.

His lack of ANY braincells was most amusing.


^_^

That's an interesting point D. The only people who would submit to his contest are people that are plagiarists!

Makes sence- bad smells only attract flies ^^

On Oct 12, 2005 10:48 pm, BogusRed said:


Well's true. even brand new artists, brand new to the web, and his,  for the sake of argument,  is the VERY FIRST website they ever go to after plugging in the new computer...

they would read the

"Don't put your name on it  at all, not your e-mail, website nothing. If you do I won't take it"

and the

"I own it after you give it to me and I can use it how I want to, you give up all rights to your own work forever"

clauses and think to themselves immediately...

"AHAHAHAHA riiiiiiight dude, bite me, I ain't THAT freeging stupid."

Thankfully 99.9999999999% of people have that much brain power functioning properly.

^_^

it seems that his ass is in his head now. im not even that stoopid, im failing science for god sakes!!!!! plagerists are the most rotten mind hackers ever!!!

Yeah I just don't get it. I don't know if you guys saw his website back in July I think it was but his site said something about him starting his own anime company or something. It was totally lame.

I also don't understand where he got all of those images. DId he draw any of them? Did he steal them? Are they actual submissions from his lame contests?

Eeep! The reply formats changed...*confused*.  Anyways I don't usually like to get involved or say anything but I wish that chap could have at least learnt to spell.  I mean if he was serious about this 'company' and 'contest' then he could have at least shown some sort of professional attitude instead of 'I drawz gud stuf giv me your art.' or something to that effect, then at least he may have been a bit more convincing at conning people.  At least that was part of his down falls.  Now I know that I'm not the best speller in the world, like most, but at least we try.  Heh.

Cya!

Angie^-^v

I've sended him a mail... let's see how he's gonna react, I'll post his reaction here as well so you guys can enjoy along XD

can you post the email you sent him as well??  plz&thanx

Yeah we all wanna see!



Are you refering to the FCK text editor?