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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2008 13:05:43 GMT -5
I just checked in my CG for a Carly Klein or a Kevin Lockhart? And they don't exist. The only place they DID exist is in the Stoneybrook Live RPG...where they made those last names up because Carly (in the Super Special where Claud goes to Summer School) and Kevin (from Mary Anne and 2 Many Babies) didn't have last names. I mean, since I just inquired about picking up a character there who had a made up last name (since I was like, "Who the heck is this?"), they explained what they had done...so...
...are you guys just ripping off that RPG without credit? Or...what. Kinda lame to say that you "just discovered" something when it's really just boosting their stuff. (And of course, it makes me wonder what else you guys are taking. So. It makes me not very inclined to join, even though I REALLY want to join a BSC/non-panfandom game, because now I kinda think you guys are shady: either you're stealing outright or you're just taking their work without credit, both of which are shady.) Unless you have an explanation as to what's up...?
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Post by Lauren on Sept 30, 2008 13:38:53 GMT -5
It was not my intention to rip them off. I came across that list and since I recognized a lot of the names on there, I just assumed that Klein and Lockhart were their last names. I should have checked to make sure and I am truly sorry.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2008 13:53:24 GMT -5
I'm not the person you apologize to: it's those moderators. I'm just the one who was nosy enough to figure out what was going on.
Though, I mean, you've kinda totally destroyed your credibility with me and maybe other people, when you claim that you "discovered" something that was their work product, you know? It just makes me wonder what else you guys have seen at their RPG and taken without admitting it. There are a lot of things that are REALLY similar between the two games, and now it's like...wow, how much ARE you taking from them? I dunno.
It's just shady, and it's unfortunate because I was thinking of picking up a character at your game, but now I feel like you guys are kinda copycats. Do you go over to their RP a lot to find out what else you can boost? I mean, why would I join your game when it seems that you take stuff come from them and without crediting it? I dunno.
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Post by sarish on Sept 30, 2008 14:29:19 GMT -5
I would like to know what else you think is similar between the two games, misty415. If you would be so kind to let me know, I can either defend or apologize, because as far as I know we have not taken one thing from their (and I am under the impression it is also your) RPG. To tell you the truth, I don't think more than half of our members have seen your RPG, and those that have seen it have pretty much stopped reading it. You know how it is! Being busy with some characters and real life at the same time.
And...it would make more sense for you to email us personally (I will even supply the email for you: stoneybrookrpg@gmail.com) than to join a community JUST so you can attack one of our members and pick an argument. Lauren didn't do anything wrong by looking at their (your) RPG and thinking that those were their last names. It was a mistake that ANY of us could have made.
Take it to the maintainers/moderators, please. Thank you.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2008 10:01:11 GMT -5
What I like about their game: the realistic plots, the sophisticated writing, the characters.
What I like about your game: the slower pace of it and the fact that you allow clients to be played, since my favorite characters were always the clients: Charlotte, the Perkins girls, the Kormans, the Marshalls, and I am a huge Little Sister fan. The opportunity to join a game and finally play the people I love to play? That would be awesome, and a lot better than playing some marginal kid like Melissa Banks or Last Name Made Up or something. But why join now? When you guys jump all over me and treat me crappy and make accusations? Maybe I should start up my own game, like New Stoneybrook used to be. That's what we totally need again.
And the similarities are in your layouts: you went from disorganized and sloppy to suddenly just like theirs, with similar links and designs - oh, and tags. The way that you tag couples? Just like theirs, because I kinda like ship names, I'm not a real fan of the "/" deal. And then this "discovery" of new characters thing? I joined the boards because I wanted to comment on that, which is my right, because my eyes rolled right out of my head. I'm not dumb, I've been rping for about three years now, when I see boosting, I say it. Sorry if you're too thin skinned to handle what someone on the outside sees.
Whatever. I'm going back to InsaneJournal, to my panfandom game. Yeah, I have to play Kristy Thomas with kids from Sunnydale High and Twilight stuff, and I can't play Karen Brewer, but at least our members and moderators don't have "discoveries" that aren't theirs.
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Post by sarish on Oct 1, 2008 10:20:08 GMT -5
^Isn't the whole... "/" between relationships a pretty much universal thing? I mean, I have used those in coupling up my friends in real life before I ever started RPing. We have these 'ship' names but no one else would know who they are referring to if they are reading in the tags. Because we decided to improve the layout of our RPG, you are telling us we copy their layout. I am sorry if you feel like I 'jumped' all over you in my response, I just don't understand the big deal.
Our RPG had just started up...of course it was disorganized and sloppy. We worked on it, to improve it and make it easier for everyone to read. Aren't most links in RPG's pretty much the same? I have seen other RPG's and they are all very similar. I have looked at ours and theirs and I don't see one thing similar in our designs.
As far as the "discoveries" of the new characters go... if I am not mistaken, Lauren googled to see a list of characters that go along in the BSC, stumbled across their list, saw the names and assumed that they were the right ones. She was not aware that they created those last names and she deleted it here right away so that the person inquiring about a character would not think they were the right ones. It was a honest mistake that I will say again that any one of us could have made. Perhaps she wasn't at home when she made the 'discovery'?
Sadly, we have also noticed similarities in the games. In actual 'details' that they have taken from us. I am not going to go into detail because this is not the place for it. We have seen minor things in theirs (and I think only two of us really actually skim theirs every so often) that are just way too coincidental and we look at dates and YEP, we did it first.
I hope you realize that we are in NO way here to copy them in any way. We prefer our own little corner. It is not a competition. It is nice to have two VERY different RPGs to read about and we prefer to keep them separate.
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Post by Lauren on Oct 1, 2008 10:49:50 GMT -5
I am sorry that you are so upset about this. However, I would prefer if you would take it to pm if you still have issues with me instead of griping about it over in the other rpg- yes, I did glance over there while ago and saw that.
Also, if you guys are so worried about us somehow stealing your plots, perhaps you could lock your game so only the players could see it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2008 7:45:04 GMT -5
hey there! my name is maggie, i am a mod and i AM from the other game...and to my knowledge i am the ONLY person from Stoneybrook Live here, since misty is NOT, and when she emailed us to say that all of this was going down, i told her to shut up and stop creating huge drama over here, since the proper thing to do wasn't defend our honor, since we aren't damsels in distress or anything, but to have emailed to inform US and let US deal with it.
i HAVE emailed you guys, i'm SO sorry, if i had responded when i got her initial email yesterday, i could have stopped this before it escalated, but i got engaged yesterday--yes, i am telling the world, i can't help it!!--and thought that maybe it wasn't going to get bad while i enjoyed my warm fuzzies. boy, that was a bad assumption on my part, yall.
so lauren and everybody here who has seen melissa here as a spokesperson for our game? she's not. so stop, and let's deal with this off the boards (i am honestly not even going to read all of this here in the thread, it's making my stomach hurt, and ruining my happy buzz). and to misty: this is an A and B conversation, so C you later.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Oct 6, 2008 17:23:17 GMT -5
I'm so confused... Lol. I didn't even know there were other RPGs, lol. Cool
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Post by Kylie90210 on Nov 20, 2008 8:41:29 GMT -5
You have to meet certain criteria to join, but if you wish to try, PM the mods.
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Post by sparklymouse on Nov 20, 2008 19:23:07 GMT -5
Is this thing still going on? You guys were so obsessed this summer, lol. I haven't heard much about it recently.
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Post by courtky10 on Nov 20, 2008 19:50:17 GMT -5
Is this thing still going on? You guys were so obsessed this summer, lol. I haven't heard much about it recently. Yup, it's still going on! We just have a proboard for the sole purpose of discussing the RPG now, and always go there instead of posting about the RPG here. : )
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Post by sarish on Nov 20, 2008 21:08:53 GMT -5
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Post by inconstant heart on Nov 21, 2008 0:35:36 GMT -5
LOL, I remember how everyone used to sit there refreshing pages just to see if a new thread or comment appeared. How did we manage that? Did we all put our lives on hold or something?
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Post by cokiemason on Nov 27, 2008 19:43:13 GMT -5
She means that everyone used to sit there refreshing pages just to see if a new thread or comment appeared... I didn't think it ws that complex of a comment...
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