[quote=o0_hyper]yes i read ur post but we arent copying u guys cause we havent even done it yet... we were just talking about it and then u came in here all defencive or whatever saying we were copying u guys...[/quote] Oh I see, so you would rather we would have waited until you did it before we came on and said something so you could have said "you should have said something before when we were talking about it on the site", ok gotcha. No one has bothered to apologize to dmitri I see, that's nice. So when someone copies a petpage or a nice mall banner you spent hours working on, I hope you don't plan on coming on here to cry about it either. edit: you guys post too fast :P

wow guys is this really necissary?

[quote=irisheyez] Oh I see, so you would rather we would have waited until you did it before we came on and said something so you could have said "you should have said something before when we were talking about it on the site", ok gotcha. No one has bothered to apologize to dmitri I see, that's nice. So when someone copies a petpage or a nice mall banner you spent hours working on, I hope you don't plan on coming on here to cry about it either. edit: you guys post too fast :P[/quote] This isn't coding, this isn't a banner. It is an idea. Ideas are copied all the time. Please get it out of your mind that an idea can be COMPLETELY copyrighted because it can't be, and you have no say over what another mall can use. Now if the coding was copied or if a banner was copied, fine come on and try to bitch at other members. But its an idea that was brought up. And I'm sure EVERYTHING in your mall is COMPLETELY original and unique and was never done before. Seriously, there really isn't anything to apologize about. You're trying to make this a bigger situation than it needs to be, for whatever reason, if you're bored or if you're trying to fill an ego. http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=evilbluemunkeyz

And thank you Angel for at least recognizing the fact that it would have been polite to give dmitri a heads up first, no one said anything about asking permission. You know he may have even offered you all advise on how to do it the right way, well good luck with whatever you decide.

How about you guys just let your feelings out and we can all have a little pow wow session and point fingers like babies. I haven't encountered something like this since I was in Kindergarten. I don't know about you guys but I'm ready to let it go and move on. XMart might have been the first but will certainly will not be the last. And as for the layout if the Nursery Mall has a different layout now why should it matter now? Why bring up the subject now?

I wasn't really saying to give Dmitri a heads up first, but more so agreeing that it seems like it was copied since everything else seems to not be an original idea either. There are way too many similarities for them to be original. But yes, I agree, I think before posting on a public forum about this great idea to interlink mall branches, that someone should have pm'd Dmitri and said "Hey, do you mind if we use this idea too?". Then it would be ok. Dmitri is too smart to think that no one would use his idea of interlinking, which is why he said FIRST on his banners. I know I could keep up with the coding for all members when people leave - with just a few clicks all the names could be replaced. But what minimall members want to change their code every time that someone leaves or joins, XMart is a group of MM Malls and the turnover is a whole lot smaller than that of a group like this. You should give them permission, Dmitri, see how it pans out. *grabs some popcorn* PS: I'm not attacking, just pointing out the obvious.

[quote=Shannara]How about you guys just let your feelings out and we can all have a little pow wow session and point fingers like babies. I haven't encountered something like this since I was in Kindergarten. I don't know about you guys but I'm ready to let it go and move on. XMart might have been the first but will certainly will not be the last. And as for the layout if the Nursery Mall has a different layout now why should it matter now? Why bring up the subject now?[/quote] It's only slightly changed from how it used to be, enough to give it a face lift. It's not just about that. I'm just pointing out how obvious the similarities are. I couldn't have been the first to notice. Here: Compare the stats table ( http://www.neopets.com/~pokadot_sox ) with that on this mall's page, and compare the rules ( http://www.neopets.com/~flamingochix ). EDIT: For a quick link, here's their rules and members' page: http://www.neopets.com/~daddycool25441

Neopets has been here for 10 years now nothing is original and nor will it completely ever be original. We were not planning on stealing Dmitri's hard work. That would be insane. I do have morals thank you very much. Thank you for posting your opinions are we done with the pow wow session now?

we didnt even say that we were gonna do it so we dont need his permission... even if we were gonna do it we dont need his permission... sure he was the first to do it but others WILL do it too... do u want us to start asking the first person to mall if were aloud to put a banner in our shops or something ?

[quote=angel_shortcake][quote=Shannara]How about you guys just let your feelings out and we can all have a little pow wow session and point fingers like babies. I haven't encountered something like this since I was in Kindergarten. I don't know about you guys but I'm ready to let it go and move on. XMart might have been the first but will certainly will not be the last. And as for the layout if the Nursery Mall has a different layout now why should it matter now? Why bring up the subject now?[/quote] It's only slightly changed from how it used to be, enough to give it a face lift. It's not just about that. I'm just pointing out how obvious the similarities are. I couldn't have been the first to notice. Here: Compare the stats table ( http://www.neopets.com/~pokadot_sox ) with that on this mall's page, and compare the rules ( http://www.neopets.com/~flamingochix ).[/quote] I am not the creator of the mall so I have no say in the coding. To take up that claim you will have to address _always_lonely_