YES. I HATE. COPYCATS. I dont like people who lack their own ideas and steal other peoples work and even more - make money or 'reputation' based on the ideas of others which they claim to be their own. Yuck ! Love independant, strong, clever and creative people, the REAL thing. Not two-faced persons with shallow mind and stone heart who only can attack behind your back.
YES. I had my 'fair share' of troubles because of so-called copycats. I worked at a creative place so I know it toooooo good how it feels when your ideas, damn even your way of typing/writing (! lol) is copied by others. Sure, it 'shows you should be flattered' if youre copied. But no, I dont feel flattered. I dont want to ! I just dont want my ideas copied, period. lol Sorry cant help it but I m like that - a PERSONALITY. And a creative one I dare say :P lol. Modesty aside ! Of course not THE only one on earth and I highly admire any other bright clever person , other cool original ideas and wholeheartedly loooove such people - they are stimulating and experiences with them enrich ones life, its a pleasure to communicate and to deal with such people. Sadly, they are rare enough these days...So why Im typing all this 'intro'...since its a 'painful' theme for me from my life experiences I can react immediately to stuff like that.
Please let me type another intro as well :) Ok ? :) Thanks! Some time ago one forum member and I came up with the idea of a forum- she came up with the idea of VS angels forum.Cool. Smth new, at least I dont know any good forum of that theme. She wanted to be the root admin and she made me the second admin. Ill try to be verrrrrrry short, so in a few words. She did: created aweful tasteless banners, didnt care about forum, tech stuff, didnt care about supporting ALL vs angels subforums ( altho other staff members tried to support all of them since its the main them and not just their own faves!). I stayed up late at night talking to her discussing stuffs, trying to say why a tastelessly made banner with falling animated hearts with weight more then 5MB is not her best idea for the forum, but all was in vain. AAAAAnway....it got really unbearable to work with such a person. And yes, I worked pretty well with other staff members - moderators, no prob at all. It came to a point when our ways parted. Me and other moderators came up with our own idea for a forum and started to work on it. The old forum was impossible to carry on not only because one admin is not an admin at all and is impossible to work with but there were also technical reasons that made old forum not as enjoyable. So we came up with our own idea which is - love victoria's secret models. Figured instead of supporting all angels why not just make subforums for just our fave models ? It took much time and testing this and that and I had to learn A LOT before we have what we have now - a refreshing nice forum. Believe me I know what it means to be an admin. Not only have an admin 'title' under your member avatar but to actually do all the admin 'dirty' work and moderator work too ! Very time consuming too. Which that person above didnt do AT ALL. She just wanted to be 'THE BOSS' and all others ( coughme,mods,cough) do all the 'dirty work'. Anyways, after we opened a forum and it was going well for us she started to whine that we 'stole her idea'. Um, VS angels forum ( subforums for current VS angels) and love VS models ( 3 subforums for 3 of my and other mods most fave models plus other sexy models and fashion and vs subforums) is definitely not the same. All in common it has - VS. Which is Victorias secret. Yes, we like VS , we like models and we like fashion so there ya go, we created such a forum. But it has nothing to do with angels as old one had and where angles was the main topic.
Now, after a while that person ( of course sooner or later it would have happened lol !) also decided to create a forum - and that she is already a moderator ( with my help cause I wrote the promotional vote for me speech for her ) on her fave models official forum means nothing to her...its not enough power, people !!! Not enough! Arghh just not f*** enough ! She wanted more, she wanted to be 'THE BOSS', THE admin dammit !!!! So there ya go - she 'created' a forum. And nope, she didnt use this lovely VS Angels idea ( which is a shame me thinks! Nor did she let me use it nor used it herself...ahhh some people *rolls eyes*), she just... created a copy of her fave model official forum - haha. Yep ! From what I 'got' its dedicated only to Ale ( her fave model). Makes NO sense at all since Ale is WELL known to have a huge good official forum already. Okay, thats half as bad, wait till you find out its title, people !!!
And -drum roll pls! its title is ' Alessandraskisses' ( only 'kisses' written in portiguese).
Um okay. Reminds ya anything ??? 'Love', 'Kisses'...Love ...models....Ale kisses... Right on, the girl didnt give her own brains any work, why bother, she just copied our forum title a bit , easy breesy and voila! Hell, if they made a forum with the 'love' name and hearts and that nice banner of 3 fave models blowing kisses why cant I make an 'ale kisses' forum with a banner of ale blowing kisses and hearts too ? Ohhhh dearrrr, this is called copycating, honey. FYI.
Further - even worse. Copied our forums title idea, copied our banners idea, copied even our webiste ! And after I created a SPECIAL banner with 'Often imitated - never duplicated' on it and copyright sign on it and put it up, she urgently closed her forum for 'some fierce changes' and it was re- opened and -surprise, surprise!- there was 'all content copyright to alekisses forum' blah blah blah - HOW L.A.M.E is that ?????????? LMAO. No wonder almost noone is posting on their forum. You know why ? Cause it just aint make any sense and it aint anything new or creative or attractive for members. Who needs yet another copy of Ale official forum ? lol But, she is THE ADMIN, taaadaaam, so her 'long time dream came true' ! Awwwwwwwwwwww... I guess thats why she took more then 6 (!) other admins and mods as her staff team - to do all the 'dirty work' LOL
Here are a couple of examples of copycating case.
So this is it. This is the story. Which is now history.
Dont settle yourself for copycats and poor imitations, BE creative, people, be original. I hope many of you who read this are not like such copycats - that person I told you about- but are amazing persons who actually have their own cool ideas and their own style. And if so, hat off for ya ! And mucho respect.
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