Web Strike
May 21st, 2006 at 9:05 pm (Daily Life, Webdesign)
I stumbled across a graphics site that was on strike today. Quite obviously, I was procrastinating on homework, and I still am as I type. So, being the curious person I am, I looked into it, and found more websites that were striking.
So apparently, some graphics sites are tired of plagiarism and the like and want to tell people about it by shutting down their websites indefinitely. To be honest, I don’t know what to think of it. Many of the websites I have admired for a long time. One of them is a link exchange, one used to be an affiliate with my old domain. I haven’t been involved with the webdesign community for almost a year, so I guess I don’t know what the conditions are like right now. I’ve been plagiarised a few times but since ShadowCache has never been popular I guess it’s something that hasn’t affected me quite as much as it has others.
I don’t think people will think about it much. They’ll just go on to other websites and forget about the striking ones. I feel that we as webmasters assume too much of other people. We assume that they are more invested in the Internet community than they really are. We think that they treat their actions on the Internet the same as their actions in real life. But for many, especially non-webdesigners, this isn’t true. They steal a layout, put it up on a freeserver, and start blogging about their life. From that point on, they are completely detached from whatever goes on within the webdesigning community. They won’t be offended if the site closes down due to their stupidity. The only thing it is doing is generating more animosity between webmasters, and we seriously do not need any more of that.
Yes, they aren’t trying to change anything. Yes, they’re just doing it to express their feelings. But I’m still a bit confused as to the point of it all. I feel like they are expressing a well-known sentiment among webdesigners.
On a side note, I was totally in for a shock today. I really must accept the fact that I do not, can not, and will never know everything. I thought I had him figured out. In fact, I had no idea. The situation only further aggravated the mental situation I was in and had plagued me the night before. Am I wasting my life trying to be with someone who isn’t physically here? Should I end it? Would it all be for nothing? I really don’t know. I’m not trying hard enough, apparently.
Hydora said,
May 22, 2006 at 4:45 am
Personally, I don’t see the point of closing a graphics site when you work so hard for it. At least your not (: ShadowCache has some pretty amazingly welldone wallpapers. And as on Captious Pedants, it’s one of the better graphics resource site on the web. It would be a pity to see it go.
Of course, you can never stop plaguerism - but i agree about the fact that non-webdesigners will be completely detached from that point.
I don’t get your last paragraph thought…Who did you think you had all figured out? Maybe just be yourself (that kind of seems stupid for me to say ot =.=).
Sakoi Kai said,
June 5, 2006 at 6:38 pm
I agree. I believe that graphics site are created to suite the creators’ personal interests and for convenience of other website builders/owners. The purpose in having a graphics site is to distribute one’s designs, and one should expect people to take them, and of course, there will always be people who take without credits and such. It’s just like a lot of us download songs and movies for free when we are not supposed to. Personally, I think it’s enough to try to reason to people that plaguerism is inappropriate, but forcing them to stop by shutting down the sites will only do damage to the owner themselves…
Anyways! I could go on forever about this. =P
Regarding your side note, I think I’ve been in similar situation just recently, however, I was the ‘other person’ who’s ‘not physically there’. =/ So I don’t know if I can help you much, but I do want to say (hope I didn’t misunderstood your words), if he’s only physically not there, what about emotionally? Or is he not the person you thought he was? I think that your happiness is the most important, if you don’t think that you can be with this person for a long time without being hurt, then it’s better to end now, because the pain grows deeper with time…
Dehang said,
August 25, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Regarding your side note, I think that the most important is for him to be spiritually in you. Follow your instincts and if you think it is best to end the relationship then do so.