The difference between a burglar and a con man
ox Spiral xo: well AL is gone now
Rakshasas Gaze: Yeah
Rakshasas Gaze: I still think that Kaitou guy's a douchebag
Rakshasas Gaze: I don't care what he did for PMak's "work," he's as guilty as getting rich off of it as anyone.
ox Spiral xo: thats one of my thoughts
ox Spiral xo: i mean he gotta have some share of the pie, right?
Rakshasas Gaze: As soon as he took over the .com domain, the community was shot in my eyes.
ox Spiral xo: *nods*
Rakshasas Gaze: http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?c=1&f=555555&u=animelyrics.com&u=animelyrics.tv&r=3y&y=r&z=3&h=300&w=610
Rakshasas Gaze: If that doesn't speak to what he did, I don't know what will.
ox Spiral xo: ooh
ox Spiral xo: thats quite a jump there
Rakshasas Gaze: Here's the thing
Rakshasas Gaze: After that first spike for animelyrics.tv
Rakshasas Gaze: That last bit was all just the community holding that site up
Rakshasas Gaze: And people saw his site and avoided it for a good 6 months
Rakshasas Gaze: It took him almost a year for his site to get where it was before
ox Spiral xo: hmm
Rakshasas Gaze: He's just a dick. He sees communities and thinks business
ox Spiral xo: o.o
Rakshasas Gaze: You couldn't tell from his responses? They sounded like something you'd get from a PR rep.
ox Spiral xo: well . . . it sorta does
Rakshasas Gaze: All that he offered was a separate "social anime lyrics" forum in his piece of shit forum that he has.
Rakshasas Gaze: That place is your stereotypical anime community, fat nerds who just sit around and pirate shit all day and act like 10 year old Japanese pop music is new shit
Rakshasas Gaze: Being put in a little corner of that site after having the forum shut down is an insult.
ox Spiral xo: if he could just let the site be and not split it, then it'd be cool
Rakshasas Gaze: He said the code was too complicated... AKA not PHP
Rakshasas Gaze: It's Perl, it's not like he made up the language himself or anything.
ox Spiral xo: yeah he mentioned that pmak modified the code too much from the original
Rakshasas Gaze: Modified code, whoopee
Rakshasas Gaze: He could at least host that forum on his site or something
Rakshasas Gaze: Besides, if PMak was the programmer everyone made him out to be, he'd document what he did
Rakshasas Gaze: Anyone worth their salt in programming documents their code, so other people can see just what's going on.
ox Spiral xo: probably
Rakshasas Gaze: I don't know. I get the feeling there's more to it than simply someone bumming off of PMak's name. I think he just didn't like having someone else hosting the site.
Rakshasas Gaze: Or he felt like the site was a drain on his money or something.
ox Spiral xo: or a lot of other things, we'll never konw
Rakshasas Gaze: I don't buy that it was him coming to his family's rescue.
Rakshasas Gaze: You're making sure his work is his. That's noble.
Rakshasas Gaze: But then destroying it afterwords... not so much. Especially when you stole his work in a nasty legal fight.
Rakshasas Gaze: But the site's gone, not like we can do anything about it. Long live the memories.
ox Spiral xo: yeah
ox Spiral xo: hmm i wonder what pmak is thinking of this stuffs happening right now
Rakshasas Gaze: The Livejournal community's not gonna work either... no one's gonna join to keep it fresh, oldbie's won't just pop by and say hello
Rakshasas Gaze: I'm sure he wants to get both of his hands back... one to choke the shit out of that bum and the other to choke Kaitou
ox Spiral xo: im there o.o
Rakshasas Gaze: Pulling that knight in shining armor crap like that after you stole the domain and spidered all of the lyrics and claimed them as your own...
Rakshasas Gaze: Kaitou is a fucking dog and a cheat and for him to act like he's taking the high road... a thief is a thief, arbitration or not.
Rakshasas Gaze: If a court can give an old lady millions for spilling coffee on herself, then legal opinions don't mean much.
ox Spiral xo: so true
Rakshasas Gaze: I don't know... The site had its identity ripped out... now it's had everything else but its soul ripped out.
Rakshasas Gaze: It's just a shell of what it was, the community.
Rakshasas Gaze: I've felt like that for a while, granted, but now it is moreso than ever.
ox Spiral xo: *nods* but it's really the people in it what makes the community but some places do can make those people come together
Rakshasas Gaze: Yeah, but not everyone on that site uses Livejournal.
Rakshasas Gaze: And a lot of the people that do use it on that site seldom, if ever, update it.
Rakshasas Gaze: Livejournal's kind of a 2003 thing, you know?
ox Spiral xo: blogging pretty much
ox Spiral xo: i just use it so i can look back and see what ive done in my life
Rakshasas Gaze: Yeah
Rakshasas Gaze: I get the feeling it won't be the community others are looking for though... then again, I've never dealt with Livejournal communities though.
Rakshasas Gaze: People tend to talk about their life in their own journal, and simply talk about certain subjects in communities, I've found.
Rakshasas Gaze: I worry that people will talk about the split up, and then simply move on or something.
ox Spiral xo: pretty much
Rakshasas Gaze: *sighs* It sucks... but that's life.
ox Spiral xo: so true
Rakshasas Gaze: Can't really keep a good thing good without some suits shitting on it, you know?
ox Spiral xo: sorts
Rakshasas Gaze: Bleh, oh well.
ox Spiral xo: hmmm i'd try to see the other forum though, one last look
Rakshasas Gaze: Unless it's undergone sweeping changes since the split, go on ahead.
Rakshasas Gaze: I just needed one look.
ox Spiral xo: lol
ox Spiral xo: =P
Rakshasas Gaze: Thoughts?
ox Spiral xo: hmm
ox Spiral xo: why not?
ox Spiral xo: i went there once but i basically ragged on how bad the forum is
ox Spiral xo: i might do that again
Rakshasas Gaze: Eh, it's worth a try
Rakshasas Gaze: The forum's pretty bad, huh?
ox Spiral xo: seriously
ox Spiral xo: ya should have seen the reaction of the others when i posted my intro. lots of angry ppl, hehe
Rakshasas Gaze: I can imagine.