Hey everybody!
So sorry for not updating yesterday, but really, there's nothing to talk about for the Tamas...
Hikaru is due for his fourth happy symbol today.
Anyway, we need to talk about something:
Ideas.
I've noticed that since early 2012 (February, march-ish), I've been finding a few of my ideas, jokes, sayings, whatever in other's logs. Old and new lines and ideas included. It ticks me off a teeny bit because I work hard thinking up new ideas and stuff for this (it's harder than it looks, believe me), and seeing people just take it like it's theirs to take really doesn't work well with me. It's hard coming up with new ideas (trials of being a writer), but I'd really like it if you don't copy off my ideas or posts or the general gist of it, because believe it or not, if you take somebody's idea, song, book, whatever and act like it's your own, it's plagiarism.
Okay, so if you do somehow take an idea, line, joke, whatever, I'm not going to go and say "OMG YOU'RE PLAGIARIZING I'MMA REPORT YOU TO THE FBI KK", but I don't want my idea going to somebody else and they get the credit, like they post it, and then somebody PM's them going "OMG YOUR IDEA IS GENIUS!!!", and they think it's their idea because the logger didn't link it back to me or the fan didn't see it first.
So, here's the deal:
I am actually fine with people borrowing ideas.
On several conditions.
1) BEFORE, BEFORE, BEFORE posting it, you send a PM asking if you can borrow it.
2) When you do post it, you CREDIT. Maybe a "Thanks to blah blah blah for today's post idea!" or "This is so and so's idea".
3) DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT copy the post word for word or similarly like that! That's not borrowing, that's copying.
4) PUT YOUR OWN ORIGINAL TWIST ON THE IDEA. This is important to me, because I feel that all loggers should have their own style and jokes; mine has "La gasp!" and sending letters to the universe, among other things. It is not okay with me if people suddenly decide to copy off my entire style and people read it, saying "OMG THIS IS SO GENIUS!"
If you've copied once without realizing (you thought of the idea first, and then find out), I'm okay with that. If you copy a recent post that you've read, that's not okay with me.
If you keep copying, I get a little ticked.
Okay?
So...sorry if I sound all harsh or whatever...but I'd really like to keep my ideas...mine.
FROM NOW ON:
ALL SAYINGS, IDEAS JOKES, ETC, HERE BELONG TO ME UNLESS SAID OTHERWISE. IF YOU DO WANT TO BORROW THEM, PLEASE, PLEASE ASK. I WON'T BITE.
Ok, go back to your lives now.
Edited by kuchipatchi.is.blue55, 04 August 2012 - 09:34 AM.