Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2019 22:29:57 GMT
Hello there,
Before continuing forward with this post, I'd like to point out that this post isn't aimed at any particular member, and is made from past experience dealing with such situations, which means please do not get offended nor discouraged while reading this post. Without further ado, let's get into the actual reason why I'm writing this post:
Please, please PLEASE do not take any assets, backgrounds or sound effects from any of the mods posted on this site.
We are a hard-working community and we strive to provide entertainment to all those interested in marble poppers. Yes, we do reuse most of the content from other games, though we always ensure to give proper credit. When someone takes a sound effect without permission, it can result in the original creator's name being completely forgotten, and that isn't something our community strives for. Taking the sound effect from one of our mods may hurt a modder emotionally, as they are the ones who put their own blood, sweat and tears alongside hours of pain and suffering into something you stole in just three clicks. Once again, don't take any assets without permission. If anything, make a forum account or contact the mod creator on Discord and ASK them for permission.
With someone stealing a mod's background and posting it somewhere else, they can basically spoiling the entire experience for a member here on Sphere Matchers forum, plus they can completely leech off of someone else's hard-work, which again, is heavily frowned upon. We've had many instances where guests to the forum abuse their freedom and take and repost our content to other forms of social medias, without any proper credit whatsoever. We do not mind guests enjoying and partaking in our content we share, we just don't appreciate when they steal.
What happens when you DO steal?/What are the consequences of YOU stealing?
For starters, you will cause drama among our members who will attempt to witchhunt you and report you to the social media platform you are using. This often results in the staff having more extra work than they need to have. Dealing with blatant thieves isn't on our list, yet their actions affect our everyday activities. Secondly, when you do steal, we will not hesitate to completely revoke any privileges you may have had in the past. Up until a year into the community's existence, we've disallowed guests to post, later on even not allowing them to automatically gain membership, and this isn't something we, nor you, would like to see happen. Our forum is meant to be free, but when someone infiltrates and completely wrecks havoc among our members, we will be forced to take action. Thirdly, after you steal constantly and never credit, we will have no other option but to shut down the forums completely, which means you will not be able to interact with our members at all.
Though is there something else that you could do that could actually help us in the long run? Here is a short list:
Who do we appreciate?
I am aware that this post may indicate we don't like guests in our community, but we do. Here are a few types of guests/members we like:
I'll leave this post open so others can also voice their opinion.
Thank you for understanding,
~Caffeine
Before continuing forward with this post, I'd like to point out that this post isn't aimed at any particular member, and is made from past experience dealing with such situations, which means please do not get offended nor discouraged while reading this post. Without further ado, let's get into the actual reason why I'm writing this post:
Please, please PLEASE do not take any assets, backgrounds or sound effects from any of the mods posted on this site.
We are a hard-working community and we strive to provide entertainment to all those interested in marble poppers. Yes, we do reuse most of the content from other games, though we always ensure to give proper credit. When someone takes a sound effect without permission, it can result in the original creator's name being completely forgotten, and that isn't something our community strives for. Taking the sound effect from one of our mods may hurt a modder emotionally, as they are the ones who put their own blood, sweat and tears alongside hours of pain and suffering into something you stole in just three clicks. Once again, don't take any assets without permission. If anything, make a forum account or contact the mod creator on Discord and ASK them for permission.
With someone stealing a mod's background and posting it somewhere else, they can basically spoiling the entire experience for a member here on Sphere Matchers forum, plus they can completely leech off of someone else's hard-work, which again, is heavily frowned upon. We've had many instances where guests to the forum abuse their freedom and take and repost our content to other forms of social medias, without any proper credit whatsoever. We do not mind guests enjoying and partaking in our content we share, we just don't appreciate when they steal.
What happens when you DO steal?/What are the consequences of YOU stealing?
For starters, you will cause drama among our members who will attempt to witchhunt you and report you to the social media platform you are using. This often results in the staff having more extra work than they need to have. Dealing with blatant thieves isn't on our list, yet their actions affect our everyday activities. Secondly, when you do steal, we will not hesitate to completely revoke any privileges you may have had in the past. Up until a year into the community's existence, we've disallowed guests to post, later on even not allowing them to automatically gain membership, and this isn't something we, nor you, would like to see happen. Our forum is meant to be free, but when someone infiltrates and completely wrecks havoc among our members, we will be forced to take action. Thirdly, after you steal constantly and never credit, we will have no other option but to shut down the forums completely, which means you will not be able to interact with our members at all.
Though is there something else that you could do that could actually help us in the long run? Here is a short list:
- Make a forum account (Making a forum account will allow you to interact further with our members)
- Join our Discord (This will help you further meet our standards and other members as well, maybe you'll make a new friend)
- ALWAYS ask for permission before using/reposting/editing another person's background/asset/content
- If all else fails, CREDIT US! How many times do we have to mention this? No matter what, you must cite your sources, and we are no exception! Failing to do so will result in mass reporting and all other consequences mentioned earlier.
Who do we appreciate?
I am aware that this post may indicate we don't like guests in our community, but we do. Here are a few types of guests/members we like:
- The lurker who doesn't take/steal nor post anything, just enjoys our content
- The person who credits our content while making their own
- The person who calls out blatant content thieves
I'll leave this post open so others can also voice their opinion.
Thank you for understanding,
~Caffeine