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ill send you the address in a pm i dont think mods like our site ><
*edit some dude from butcherblock posted it in there so go take credit
The bold part is the issue; credit had already been properly given. Calling someone a plagiarist is an insult. You insulted him, first, without reason before he ever poked his nose in that thread.
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From that sentence alone I read it as more she's looking out for a friend vs. intending to insult Hen. I'm assuming she doesn't really know him bar this encounter, so at that point, there's nothing to insult.
I.E. it could have been anywhere on the web & she'd have said: "your work is here, so & so posted it, go take credit" - this gesture is wide open to interpretation. It could be "he's stealing your work" OR it could be, "they don't know who originally wrote this, go take a bow."
Where things seem to go wrong is where the misunderstanding/goof goes unclarified or unforgiven. (sorry to get all fluffy and fabric softener on a flames forum) Whether or not he did or didn't credit the original writer when he first posted, he was quick to remedy the mistake.
Say he'd posted it and wasn't corrected in the thread, but people all posted saying "wow that's great man" and he realized "oh shit, they think I wrote it" and edited it appropriately. Would it be worth giving the benefit of the doubt, then?
On the other side, if it was Hen's post c&p'd somewhere and I said "hey, Hen, your story on X is on Y forum, go take credit" would it be an attack on the poster, or a heads up to the writer/friend?
The wrestling match has gone on in 3 threads - the eq2forums, another thread here, and now this thread is started. I tend to think yeah, it's overkill & posting this thread was a. leaping to conclusions and b. going too far.
But, at the same time, I think stepping down and making peace/apologies when you've misfired and are backed into a corner is a incredibly tough thing to do. I'm a misfiring maniac and I've had to eat my ego so many times on forums I can't even count. It felt like being squashed flat everytime I had to do it - and I often had to do it while still pissed off. :\
The inclination, when your back is against a wall, is always to keep going even if you know it's a losing battle. It seems to me flameouts on forums generally tend to die because people just get tired, not because one gives way and says "you may be right, I f'd up." Giving ground is nearly impossible to do when everything in you is saying "you're gonna get eaten alive."
Edited to rephrase something.
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