LiveJournal
Why is it so hard to credit?
Yui • Posted 11:40AM on August 13, 2007 (4 Comments)
I’ve recently introduced a LiveJournal layout at Crazed System, called Red Sunset, featuring Tero of Vidoll. It’s my first S2 layout, and I’m actually quite proud of it. The flaw of releasing S2 layouts for other people to use, however, is that I can’t precode a credit link into the layout before sending the layout off to the people that want to use it, since I can only edit the CSS. As a result, users have to add the credit link themselves. Now, despite the fact that I’ve included instructions on how to credit on both the Readme file that comes with each of my layouts and the layout entry itself, only one user has posted proper credits so far. These people never bothered to credit at all. This person at least had the decency to credit me in his/her userinfo. This is the only person that actually put the credits in his/her sidebar, as I instructed. Why is it so hard to follow directions? In fact, even if they didn’t bother read through everything (which is understandable), what would make anyone think that it was okay not to credit someone for making their layouts?
It’s a good thing that I watermarked my layout footer before distributing it. This is seriously making me question whether or not I should post more S2 layouts. They’re much more flexible, powerful, and intuitive than S1 layouts, but… what’s the point if no one’s going to acknowledge that I made them?
Tags: LiveJournal, Crediting/Theft
