jocker clusterf**k, damn. Options

[*tripvertigo*]

remember back in the day when we'd get a jocker once in a while, and everyone on cb would go to that person's xanga and just bash the shit out of them until they peed themselves and finally took the layout they jocked down? Or if they didnt take it down, we'd find a way to hack their account?

yeah those were the good days.

really made me feel loved. but i guess back then i was contributing a lot more to cb than I am now.


anyway, some of my best bashing insults came from those situations.


i remember this only really happened to really well known users on cb/xanga. i.e. me or roxanne, or rivendell...

the reason i bring this up now is because i google myself every couple of months to see what shows up, and this is what i found:

http://www.xanga.com/swt_pinkii/96939941/item.html


so f**king full of win.

[*tripvertigo*]

so we should just accept that because we post shit on the internet, people are going to be assholes and take it?

why dont the jockers just accept that there may be consequences to their actions?

a lot of people DO ask them politely to either give credit where its due or just take their work down. after being refused is when the flaming begins, so i dont see anything wrong with that.

when someone takes your work without giving you the credit, it threatens your individuality. someone may look at your layout and then their layout and decide that the other person came up with it first. they may think that YOU'VE jocked the layout, and that could ruin your reputation.

it's the same deal when you cheat on a test at school. your professor has no way of knowing who cheated off who, so most of the time you BOTH get punished for it.

[*Uronacid*]

so we should just accept that because we post shit on the internet, people are going to be assholes and take it?

why dont the jockers just accept that there may be consequences to their actions?

a lot of people DO ask them politely to either give credit where its due or just take their work down. after being refused is when the flaming begins, so i dont see anything wrong with that.

when someone takes your work without giving you the credit, it threatens your individuality. someone may look at your layout and then their layout and decide that the other person came up with it first. they may think that YOU'VE jocked the layout, and that could ruin your reputation.

it's the same deal when you cheat on a test at school. your professor has no way of knowing who cheated off who, so most of the time you BOTH get punished for it.

so we should just accept that because we post shit on the internet, people are going to be assholes and take it?
Well, there's nothing that you can do about it. There are ABSOLUTELY NO legal repercussion for "jocking". Where do you think the term "Whore for Whore" or "Whore Me" comes from. These are the developers of layouts that people are just going to copy the code.

why dont the jockers just accept that there may be consequences to their actions?
Because there are no consequences to their actions...

a lot of people DO ask them politely to either give credit where its due or just take their work down. after being refused is when the flaming begins, so i dont see anything wrong with that.
So, the designer is kindly disagreeing with the user, and the user is kindly disagreeing with designer. You can't expect the user to agree with you (being a designer). You can't expect anyone to agree with you any any conflict. The only thing you can do is hope that the user understands you, feels your pain, and takes your stuff down out of the goodness of his/her heart.


when someone takes your work without giving you the credit, it threatens your individuality. someone may look at your layout and then their layout and decide that the other person came up with it first. they may think that YOU'VE jocked the layout, and that could ruin your reputation.

I'm going to assume that the someone you're talking about is someone who is looking to hire you for a job.

If you're reputation is threatened by jocking then you're obviously not a good enough to graphic/web designer anyways. People who make are into web design generally have a style that they stick to. It's your signature as an artist. A nitch (if you will) that makes you an individual.

Unless this "Jocker" "jocks" every layout/graphic you have ever created they're going to have a tough time applying for a position with your work. If you don't have enough work samples to prove that you're not a "jocker", then you're not good enough to get a job. If you don't have that... then you don't have a reputation to ruin.

Also, I have never been in an interview where the HR department asked me if I was "jocking". If you're starting in the tech field companies usually hire you as an intern so they can fire you if you suck. If you are jocking then you're probably not going to last anyways.

it's the same deal when you cheat on a test at school. your professor has no way of knowing who cheated off who, so most of the time you BOTH get punished for it.
No, not at all. No-one gets in trouble for "jocking", because it's not stealing. Stealing is illegal, and "jocking" is not.