Kittysan Posted:

I reported an idea theft, and now I’m a sore loser?

You’re also a hypocrite.

You claim to be good at submitting styles, but most of your styles are near carbon copies of styles that were already doing well for several days before mysteriously getting a surge of downvotes right before the forum gets posted.

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As far as man-man’s submission goes, I think he could have done a better job at paraphrasing, but for the most part I don’t consider it plagiarism to keep good chunks of sentences intact. This is because paraphrasing can often obscure the reference, and if people don’t have a clear idea of what the parody is it’s not likely the idea will win, and if it does it’s not likely it’ll make a good forum.

That said though, I don’t like the idea of making hypothetical forums for existing organizations. Like with the “Arrogant Bastard Forums”, what happens if a real Arrogant Bastard Ale Forum comes into being? Even if the build preceded it, it’ll be seen as a poor parody at best, a cheesy ripoff at worst.