opinions please Options

[*[2]Nekked*]

let's get a few opinions about a growing problem i've been noticing lately. apparently some people think that you can't rightfully claim credit for coding, since you didnt invent the programming language. therefore anyone of you can take my layouts, and just change the image, and that's okay... it doesnt constitute as jocking, and i shouldnt get mad about it.

please, that's just like saying its okay for people to plagarize literature because the author didnt invent the English language. Sure, one thing is more important the other.. but learning how to program is just like learning a new language. Like english, you have a certain syntax you have to learn.. you have to learn all the tags (comparable to vocabulary), and you have to learn how to put it together to make it work the way you want. i wouldnt mind if someone took part of my code, like how to create a link, or how to put a border on something... because yeah, of course i didnt make that up... but to take my code in it's entirity... that can't be justified. you guys know that it takes me longer to code my xanga than it does to make the graphics? but that's just becaues xanga is f**ked up, and im constantly having to tweak everything to work the right way. you DIDN'T create the source code for the layout... someone else did.. just like if you jock an image.. you didnt make the image.. someone else did.. so that person deserves the credit for sitting there and coding the layout or creating the graphic. it took time to do both... THEIR time; not yours. so dont say things like "i got the coding for someone else, but i used a different graphic, and that's good enough to not credit them."

it's not the individual lines of code or tags that count either... what counts is the whole thing.. and how each code plays off each other and makes your layout work the way you want. its the end effect that counts... so yeah of course u cant claim credit on every individual line of code, but you do have the right to claim credit on the entire thing all together.

right? i may be wrong, but that's my take on it.

[angel-roh]

It's true I guess. But even though someone did steal my layout... and said it was theirs. I don't go to their xanga and say "hey b*tch you stole my layout. take it off" i just say "heh nice layout, thanks for using my layout."

Yeah it took me maybe an hour to put the div layers right and also the layout too...yes it took me awhile. but if someone says that they made it, i just laugh it off heh... cause i know that they didnt make it. and they know that too. but to their friends and the anonymous, the jocker says that they made it so people can be like "wow you did a great job"

but yeah jocker is a bad thing that people shouldn't do... well i know few people who jocked it and felt bad about it but they always get picked on because they always have the baddest layouts. so they jock people's layout and saying it's theirs... but the end up getting bashed by the creators of the layouts.. i know few people cause they did to mine too and also other people's layout from createblog and i wont tell you..well i did told once, but i found out it was my friend O__O;; so i felt bad haha...

So yeah the whole point is that I agree with you. also the part when you said the codes for your stylesheets.. i agree about that too because im trying to get the perfect colors by opening photoshop and the load up is very slow to open it up >.<;; and also the width, the height and such... usually people take about hmm an hour? ehh i started to confuse myself right now, okay i'll stop here >.<;