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Why do I exist online?
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
“Why do I exist online?” would be the question I like to ask myself from time to time. OK, I have a network of sites, I am a web designer, I am a content creator and also a forum manager, not to mention blogger. Am I here to make money online? To offer content and help others? Mix these two? Why do others exist? Do they really bring in something good to this world? Would the internet be less rich if their sites would cease existing? Would we all be thrilled to not see them again?
I visit tens of sites daily. Some I can’t live without, some I’d delete myself from the servers they occupy with no use to anyone, but the one who created the junk. I see people run scam sites, MFAs, splogs, who are just for some easy money. They don’t care about the fact they don’t help anyone, they just try to cheat the system. We have the copy-pasters who steal our work and pass it as theirs, the porn site managers who deal with something very tricky, we have the social media sites, the forum owners, we have the personal sites and blogs, we have them all.
From time to time I try to find out why I am here with my sites. What drives me daily in this online world: easy money, content, spam? What am I here for?
How to fight plagiarism .. a case study
Friday, March 7th, 2008The last week was a hectic one. Not only did I have to work a lot on some projects, but I had to take care of some unpleasant business too. It was late in the afternoon when I got a message from my good friend Adriana. Something like: “Hey, a kid stole your template from MyBB.ro .. see what you can do about this”.
I was already breathing heavily when I got to the site .. and looked at a thread. The teen who did this, even bragged about the fact he was able to mimic my style on his personal forum. He was good. Those of you who create skins know how hard myBB is to skin. And still, the kid made a duplicate of my skin in few hours. God he was good.
People say that imitation is a form of flattery .. well, when you see someone copy-paste your hard worked UNIQUE skin for a forum, believe me flattery is the last thing you feel. Let’s see how I was able to deal with this.
