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	ingrid 2004-04-26 01:30 am UTC (link)
	"I keep a running list of the usernames of people using my icons. Because I ask for credit, about once a month I run through the list and make sure the credit is there." Anal much? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sagralisse 2004-04-26 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	I was going to say that, and then I come here to find that my very un-written down thoughts have been PLAYGERYZED OMG! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Man, I love people like that... llama_treats 2004-04-26 01:36 am UTC (link)
	Bastards! They stole the icon I spent a whole two seconds copying and THREE HOURS pasting some text on 'cos Photoshop is so hard to use! Call me when you actually DRAW the pictures you're maiming with your stupid add-ons, K? Moron. (Reply to this)

shinigami_co
2004-04-26 02:46 am UTC (link)

I have some icons I credit in my journal. I have some I don't, because they didn't ask for credit and I frankly am a lazy-ass who would rather not put in the extra effort to figure out how to credit. I make icons and I find them in different places without credit. And, yes, when I posted them, I asked for credit. Some of them did take a while for me to make. But, you know what? I'm just glad they liked it enough to take the trouble to save it and upload it to their stuff.

Now, hotlinking...that's uncool.

I guess, when you get right down to it, it's really just another Photoshop manip. Yeah, you put a lot of time into it, but in the end, all you did was match words with picture and filters. What really bothers me is I've found places where they have templates pre-made to make icons, and then people have the audacity to scream about crediting. That's like me taking the Mona Lisa, painting on a frilly hat, slapping on a quote from Linkin Park, then demanding that it was my work.

*shrugs* Maybe I'm being a big ol' hypocrite, but I never understood that whole thing.

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	shinigami_co 2004-04-26 02:48 am UTC (link)
	Who to credit", not how, as I obviously know how. BAH. goes back to ~~surfing pr0n sites~~ doing charity work (Reply to this)(Parent)

	arabella 2004-04-27 02:18 am UTC (link)
	Sort of like this? OMG, GIVE ME CREDIT!!!!!1111111111 Meh, I have no mad Photoshop skillz.... My name does not begin with C and end with rystal. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	shinigami_co 2004-04-27 04:18 am UTC (link)
	BWAHAHAHA! XDXD That made me giggle for countless hours. XD If you don't mind, I must steal that icon. And I will ~~NEVER~~ be sure to give you credit. ^_~ And, I'm glad someone caught my reference to the Wank of the Year. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	arabella 2004-04-27 04:23 am UTC (link)
	If you want it, it's yours. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jfpbookworm 2004-04-26 03:38 am UTC (link)
	Hmm. I wonder how many of these "omg it took me hours to make that in Photoshop and then someone stole it" folks actually paid for their copy of The Most Pirated Program Ever. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	marginalsanity 2004-04-26 03:56 am UTC (link)
	~~I didn't pay for mine either! It's an "educational" copy from computer work.~~ For shame. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	allen 2004-04-26 08:37 am UTC (link)
	ICON LOVE! <-- total Zork geek since age ten. (Reply to this)(Parent)

naienko
2004-04-26 06:29 pm UTC (link)

OW. Low blow, that.

I'm with minttea on the credit thing -- I would like to be credited not because I need the ego-boost (though I do) or because I'm SO PROD UV MY WURK!!!11, but because if someone else likes the icon I did that is being used, I want people to know where to find other work like it. Kind of on the same lines of reading a good book, or being recced a good book, then going out and looking for other things by the same writer -- but you can't do that if you don't know who the writer IS!

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	conchoidal 2004-04-26 09:34 am UTC (link)
	totally off topic, but what is the name of the anime in your icon, I remember hearing about, but forgot the name. Has to do with a girl who likes this guy and she literally becomes his right hand... right? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	elle 2004-04-26 10:17 am UTC (link)
	It's called Midori no Hibi. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	conchoidal 2004-04-28 04:32 am UTC (link)
	thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	c_chan 2004-04-26 10:20 am UTC (link)
	I make icons too (is an icon wh0re), and do ask for credit, but I don't get all upset when I find out people don't. I didn't make the pictures I steeled<?strike> ~~stole~~ found them on other websites. People wank way too much over 100x100 pictures. (Reply to this)

Glad to see you like my icon.
(Anonymous)
2004-04-26 10:57 am UTC (link)

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for spreading my creation to the rest of the world. No, there is not a bit of sarcasm in that statement; I'm one of those whackos who believes that credit is APPRECIATED, but not necessary. I'm not going to file some $100,000 civil lawsuit against someone for icon thievery. Just glad someone enjoyed the icon that took me all of 4 minutes to make enough to use it (and currently default it). Glad you liked it, and since you know where to find me (or at least where I posted that), send me a "hi" or something, be nice to chat with you.

--AaronBSam

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	Re: Glad to see you like my icon. iczer6 2004-04-26 07:09 pm UTC (link)
	Glad you liked it, and since you know where to find me (or at least where I posted that), send me a "hi" or something, be nice to chat with you. I'm just happy to know I'm not the only one who watches, and likes, this series. I do try to give credit though. Looking forward to the Tenjo Tenge icons you mentioned! Icz (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nights_mistress 2004-04-27 09:10 am UTC (link)
	Aw, what? The post got deleted? Why does all the wank disappear by the time I get to it? Damn you, wanky people! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2004-05-01 04:07 am UTC (link)
	It was deleted at the request of one of the mods for being off topic. Not that that's mentioned in the community info page or anything, but whatever. You'll have to get your wank elsewhere, sorry. I'm kind of amused. Especially since whatever quote was used in the first reply to this wasn't by me - did they find that in the comments, or what? --slyferret (Reply to this)(Parent)

	nell 2004-05-01 04:04 am UTC (link)
	AHAHAHAHAHA. As Slyferret's ~~illegal girlfriend~~ platonic life partner, I feel vicariously proud and very, very amused. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2004-05-01 04:09 am UTC (link)
	Nell WTF you have an LJ, a GJ AND a JF? What are you, some sort of serial blogger? You honestly terrify me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nell 2004-05-01 04:10 am UTC (link)
	Don't look at me, I'm only in it for the wank. All I use this journal for is my onion icons I swear!! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2004-05-01 04:14 am UTC (link)
	Sigh. (Reply to this)(Parent)