Sunday, August 17, 2008

treachery?

Mass-PM from Alayel:

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Dear Members of Roleplayer's Kingdom,

Your admin, "Lothlómendil" (AKA Broken Wings) needs to receive a message about stealing ideas from other sites. Everything from this board has been stolen from other, more successful boards. The first of which, http://therealmofarda.com/ is large site from where she stole even the admin's username. It is from this site that she also stole the board rules, Dungeon Master Zero and its avatar (which has been now deleted by the original DMZ to stop the theft), the entire concept of BADI from a staff member named Sartana (sound familiar? It should, this name and his smiley were stolen too), and goodness knows what else. Imagine not having the creativity to come up with your own username! It's insultingly disrespectful and shows an incredibly lack of imagination.

But this site isn't the only one where ideas were blatantly ripped. If you take a look at http://role-player.net/ you will notice that this older forum's RP sections match RPK's almost identically. And if you look at her profile on that board, where she was again using Arda's admin's name, she got banned for her theft. Her accounts Broken Wings and Soulreaver on Arda have also been banned for theft. And when contacted on RPK about the theft by the real Lothlómendil so the stolen ideas could be removed, she instead decides to suspend her account and avoid the issue.

Think carefully about participating in a site that was completely ripped from somewhere else, and whether or not you want to be around an admin that would be so deceptive and petty.

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Hum.

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