Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[RealAlHazred]

From what little I know I would say that a forum owner has license to content that others post, or they couldn't disseminate it. That doesn't equal ownership.

Fair enough! When Yog-Sothoth.com was discontinued, I started looking into forum ownership with the idea of asking Paul (who owned and ran it) if I could take it over. As it turns out, he was not interested in it continuing without himself at the helm and was not willing to turn it over to anyone in a non-archive form; but my preliminary reading of what you need to know to own and run a large forum in a professional manner gave me a headache.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

What’s the diff between someone wiping their posts and getting blocked out of articles and threads on the site?

With the first, most of whatever contributions a person made before wiping are just gone.

In the latter, they have reduced access going forward, but past contributions remain intact.

Some things don’t have a remedy. (Or they do but someone chooses not to act on them.)

While true, wiping your account removes all potential of there being a remedy: can’t fix a problem if you don’t know what the problem is.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

The loss to RPGs when Yahoo! Groups and Google Plus went away is huge.

Yep.

 

[trappedslider]

On the orther hand, your ideas are the only things you actually truly own, in the sense that people can't take them from you -- except in the sense of taking ideas you post, in a private forum or elsewhere. So, in that sense it makes total sense to burn your bridges when you leave.

I posted the city i created "Crystalshore" so that someone CAN take my ideas and hopefully IMPROVE on it because frankly, I think it's lacking in some areas but no clue how to fix it

My favorite (?) thing on the Internet, currently.

OP: "My fellow <group members>, what do you think about X?"
First freaking post: "I am not part of <group members>, but here's a detailed, 5,000 word essay on my thoughts on the matter."

Excuse me but it was 5,001

 

[dragoner]

I give my stuff away for free, all I ask is credit. I do charge for some too, though that is subway busker level of income.

 

[Ryujin]

I give my stuff away for free, all I ask is credit. I do charge for some too, though that is subway busker level of income.

I typically post my pictures, to my website, under a Creative Commons (non commercial use) license.

 

[dragoner]

I typically post my pictures, to my website, under a Creative Commons (non commercial use) license.

DTRPG likes us to charge something, that is how they make their money, and it's fair because that puts you in their distribution network. Though all together RPG's are penny ante vs motorcycles, cars, etc. as far as hobbies go.

 

[Ryujin]

DTRPG likes us to charge something, that is how they make their money, and it's fair because that puts you in their distribution network.

Completely reasonable when you're using the resources of someone else.

Though all together RPG's are penny ante vs motorcycles, cars, etc. as far as hobbies go.

Well, yes and no. it depends on where you are and the level at which you're working. Most motorcycle racing photographers in Canada work hard, to make dirt. I think that the most I made off a single shot was $120.00, for a magazine cover. My best single payday was around $400.00 and I shelled out $100.00 in gas to make that, plus worked roughly 18 hours, over that weekend. Most weekends I got next to nothing. All for the privilege of having businesses steal my work for their websites because, "It's on the internet, so it must be free."

EDIT - I stopped shooting at the beginning of Covid and haven't gone back

 

[trappedslider]

EDIT - I stopped shooting at the beginning of Covid and haven't gone back

So your violence stopped due to covid?

 

[dragoner]

Well, yes and no. it depends on where you are and the level at which you're working. Most motorcycle racing photographers in Canada work hard, to make dirt. I think that the most I made off a single shot was $120.00, for a magazine cover. My best single payday was around $400.00 and I shelled out $100.00 in gas to make that, plus worked roughly 18 hours, over that weekend. Most weekends I got next to nothing. All for the privilege of having businesses steal my work for their websites because, "It's on the internet, so it must be free."

EDIT - I stopped shooting at the beginning of Covid and haven't gone back

I understand, I did band photography, stopped mostly with digital; seemed to lose it's glamour. Last I did was photograph Vans Warped Tour for someone writing an article in Rolling Stone, neat to get in there, take pictures, talk to people. Money was comparable to busking on a subway platform.

Though looking at how much money plug into motorcycles or cars as their hobby, is another order of magnitude.