As long as your ass kissing is known.

Why do people always start talking about court when someone expresses displeasure at being copied? I'm personally sick as hell of people being a wee bit over-inspired by my stuff and not wanting to give credit where it is due, but I'm not about to sue everyone (okay, some people, but not everyone) who ever ripped off some part of something I put out. I'd be peeved about this thing if I were The Hun, but I wouldn't waste a lot of time that could be spent on something productive making a legal battle out of it. If I were a car industry person, I might have an opinion on Honda or Mercedes, based on discussions at tradeshows or whatever, even if there was no court case.

The guy is so lacking in talent and business acumin he does that. I think it will do more harm than good.

Hun, don't worry about feeder fish, they are too small to do any damage.

Oh my God, I can't believe someone is willing to volutarily make this much of an ass of himself on a public board... If you don't like my fucking rules, don't fucking submit. Or in plain English: if you don't like my rules, don't submit. How hard is that?

I don't tell people they shouldn't use certain sponsors, I don't tell people they shouldn't use a certain host, I ONLY tell people that if you DO you that certain host or sponser that I (read: me, the owner of MY site) am not going to link to it.

Really, some people definately make it a hobby to make 'emselves look very good by trying to bring someone down. KRL is an example of that, this guy is trying the same thing. Nice try guys... doesn't work though. Stop these posts please. It doesn't add a single thing to the discussion.

Anyway, I know Pat from the early early days when we worked on the first ever picturepost and stuff like that. He lived in Luxembourg at the time, which was not too far a ride from where I live. Lost his info when he moved to the US though, didn't have too much contact with him after that (hell, he got hooked up with Mark's Bookmark, so obviously we couldn't be friends anymore ;-)

It's cleared up know though, problem gone. Thanks Pat!

... where is that little fag funkmaster, with his three dots before each sentence and two exclamation marks after !!

www.GoGuides.org copied www.google.com

boo hoo !!

man some of you guys really are dumb. a design is a design, it doesn't matter if it sucks. besides, thehun makes a lot of cash with it. probably more than you.. so fuck off.

also the guys that think they know how patrick was before.. fuck you. nobody is fukin perfect, I'm sure you did something bad too in adult biz, it's just that nobody knows it.

:321GFY

LOL this is what TheHun used to look like back in 1998
http://web.archive.org/web/199902181...ww.thehun.com/

Thats just minimal html. How can you call it a copy ? Every page in 1995 looked exactly like it.

Feel free to steal my super-converting enter link

<a href="http://www.1995.com/">ENTER</a>

If a design is stolen it is theft. No matter what design it is or how bad anyone might find it. The suprising part is that people think it's The Huns design that makes the site successful. The simple solution is that The Hun has been around forever has tons of Bookmark traffic. I think the simple design lets the site load fast and keeps the bandwidth down but it is possible to do a low bandwidth design without stealing.

Dude, I patented that a week ago. I'll see you in court.

But in all seriousness...today someone I did some galleries for was accused of "stealing" the design on those galleries...um, they were basic tables with no graphic headers or anything...just tables, for cryin' out loud...no-brainer, pump-out-fifty-an-hour with an h1 tag for the title...I would really love to face my accuser...anyway.

The page in question on this thread was clearly a copy. The Hun's layout may not be particularly groundbreaking or innovative, but it's easily recognizable.

It could be a joke, but...

I copied your design some time ago (when I started my first TGP and had 30 hits per day from google). I only copied the gallery layout (descriptions + links, no colours, no banners, just a lots of galleries + descriptions dump). This way I got very nice google ranking in less that 2 months run. After that changed to my current stupid useless layout, but still get some nice google and yahoo traffic.

I think he is doing the same, with the only difference that he copied the entire design instead a part of it.

His main page has lots of links. There is a limit where SE bots start "thinking" the page is just a spam dump, so I think he is just trying to boost his google traffic.

Even that, he could be more creative with the text. Coplete copoies are OK, but surfers go confused and some time after that they become angry because of site mismatch.

Most simple html generator programs created layouts like that way back..
TITLE ( usually big Times New Roman font )
HR tag
sub title or intro
HR tag
Another paragraph
List of links
Email

Man this takes me back.. remember Hot Dog ? Hot Dog Pro ? Those were hot.
http://www.sausage.com/

Remember HotMetal ?

It's .net, not .com