ShinySpiritSeer wrote:I've got a problem:
with releasing my beta someone by the name Endercreeper has used my files and released their own beta. now that'd be fine if I was credited, which I wasn't.
Specifically I want to know why anyone would want to use my beta to make their own...
it's discouraging when someone uses your stuff and doesn't credit you
See... this is the thing I start having a problem with.
It might be wise to attempt to contact Endecreeper9999/MLGBowser in his website circles in private first.
Ideally, it might be best to have not alerted anybody to this at all publicly (yet) aside from him and record an entire discussion with that person. Repeat attempts to contact the person consistently, but maintain your sense of respect and due diligence to keeping conversations as tame and soundly polite as possible.
Attempt to try reaching a sort of understanding with the person after enough talks that you are only interested in being credited (so long as the coding work can be proven to be your doing ) and afterwards, If they comply, the issue will be resolved so long as they have credited where you expect it to be due on your terms.
If he doesn't, just take those conversations you had with them and their timestamped dates and align them with when you made first posts in this thread along with when you made Lopunny available to illustrate and expose the person for their failure to respect your work.
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Also, don't let any of this discourage you. If handled with proper grace, this will at best be a minor issue so long as you rely on logic ahead of emotions. I'm under the impression you have infinitely more witnesses here to back up your claim than they have, so I don't see a reason to let emotion get the better of you now when you have not only legitimacy to your claim, but also the most raw defense according to timestamps. these details cannot be artificially forged. and serve as your strongest tools to settling a dispute.
..so, again. Don't be discouraged. Just contact him and act as though nothing else has changed, as it honestly hasn't as of yet. So long as I'm present, it's very unlikely that something like this will go unchecked for long.