Posts about TOU violations, kit rippers, etc.
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Just a quick note to let you all know that I’m getting closer to setting up my shop. With that being said, I have made my site a secure site as of this morning. You can now visit my site at https://manipulatedbymagik.x10host.com/
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As always, thank you for reading.
Have a great day! Stay safe & make good choices. 😘
Good Morning!
I’m just starting my cup of coffee for the day,
even though I’ve been awake for a while.
Anyway, while working in my MBM forum,
I got to thinking of a few things. 
First of all anyone is welcome to join the forum.
As long as you’re not a pirate, kit or tag ripper
or Drama Queen, you should be okay. 
It does have some ‘visitor’ areas that anyone can see if they stop by. …Just like I had on my Spruz site-
except you can reply in most of these areas also. 
Find my forum here.
The second thing is if you do join, please be a little patient with me. I had that forum since 2011… and around 2015 it went on hiatus. I am literally just ‘relearning’ how to use it since it’s much different than the forum I had on my Spruz site. 
I’m not sure if forumotion made any drastic changes with anything in that time it was on hiatus. BUT! I’ve been wrong before. I think if you join I have to approve you. But I’m not 100% sure. 
I know I had to change a setting a couple weeks ago because the forum wasn’t working for a person who had joined… and then left before I could find out what the issue was. Anyway, after searching the forumotion boards, I think I discovered the issue. I tweaked a few things & hopefully have the problem resolved. I made a new back up account & I didn’t have to approve that one & everything seemed to be working dandy- I posted several replies in there & so far it has been O.K., so I guess if anything, let me know if you have an issue & be patient please as I try to fix it for you.
With that being said, I also had made a post over there two weeks ago & I realised that even though it’s in a public area of my forum, it might not be seen, so I’m going to ‘re-post’ it here as well. Read on:
“Greetings!
Thank you for stopping by. 
This is not your typical ‘Tagger Forum’. This is my own version of that. This forum in no way will be like any of the other Tagger’s forums out there. I know I’ll probably be missing some threads, or ideas… and that is okay, because I don’t want to be like the others.
I don’t peek at what other forums have for information such as artist permissions. I’m going to assume you belong to enough forums that have given you that information already. 
I’m also not going to copy any other’s ideas for Tagger Challenges, etc. I have my own ideas & my own ‘vision’ of how to do them. I pride myself on my own uniqueness & who would I be if I copied other ideas?
This forum will be different. It’s always going to be a bit ‘HIM-Inspired’ & that will never go away. 
But, aside from that, I invite you to join me… and help make this forum a unique & fun experience. We’ll do things a bit differently… and add our own twists to ‘common’ challenges & discussions.
Thank you again for stopping by.
I hope to see you here.
”
You can read my other posts- About, Disclaimer, Terms Of Membership in this board here. That board should be set for anyone to visit.
Oh! And I have a special tagger challenge created for forum members & Guests. You can check it out & give it a try here. 
I think I’ve rambled enough. 
I’ll see you soon.
Have a great day! Stay safe & make good choices. 
Original Post Date- 6/5/16, 2:38 AM Central Standard Time
First of all, for those of you who have
commented on my Wall Of Shame page or posts,
thank you for reading, your positive messages
& passing the information along.
I sincerely appreciate your support. =)
Last week I received a message in my
Facebook messages from a friend who alerted me
to a Russian site/ blog who is sharing my FTU kits.
I don’t get on FB much these days,
so I didn’t see this message until earlier tonight.
When I clicked the link provided,
I saw many of my FTU kits posted on this site
& items were posted individually out of their zipfiles
for anyone to just save what they wanted. >.<
Also, when looking to the left side of the page,
I saw there were links for other designers’ kits
being shared in the same manner as well. >.<
You can see for yourselves by looking
on my proof below.
*Note: I am not including the web address to this site,
since I know there ARE people who would go there
only to ‘steal’ items for their own use & nothing more.
You should be able to click on these to get a
better/ bigger pic. 😉
Does seeing this piss me off? You Betcha! >.<
Words cannot describe the rage I’m feeling right now.
And I’m not pissed just because they’re sharing my items,
I’m pissed because this person has NO regards to anyone
At. All.
& in turn is f*cking others over as well. >.<
Many of you who know me or have followed
my blog, know I advocate for those who have been
ripped off, pirated, etc.
Seeing this does not sit well with me at all.
My ‘faith’ in the PSP community
has been dangling by a very precious, fragile thread
as it is & that frayed thread is about to break.
Unfortunately, at this time I won’t be offering
any more freebie kits. I’m very sorry to do this,
but until I can figure out something I really have no choice.
I love giving out kits & trying to make them reasonably
big enough so a person can use them hopefully more
than once or twice- since I know there are people
who love tagging but can’t always afford to buy kits.
I enjoy giving back to the community
as much as I can, but when I have had my kits ripped
by three different so-called ‘designers’,
been screwed over by a few who were on my CT team
who only was there to get kits & then not work them,
having tags ripped, etc. & now seeing this,
I seriously just want to throw in the towel & walk away.
The only ‘positive’ thing I can see about this
is that thankfully it’s only my FTU kits this person
is sharing- to my knowledge, thus far.
But again, it makes me reluctant to offer
any free kits when I know they’re getting shared illegally.
It makes me feel bad for not wanting
to give kits to you guys.
I feel like I’m punishing those of you
who are smart enough to abide
by a designers’ TOU & respect those TOU.
For now going forth, I will only be offering
FTU cluster frames.
They will have a TOU included with them.
Again, I apologise, but this will have
to suffice until I can think of a way to
make my FTU kits available without worrying
about them being shared like this.
Thank you for reading this.
And thank you even more for your understanding. =)
If you are a designer (I’ll need proof, btw) that has read this
& you’ve seen your name listed on the left
in the screen grabs above,
message me if you choose, for the link to the site.
*hugz*
