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I can't decide if it's a general aversion to public complaining, or if this company is really as arrogant and self important as this article made them out to be
by yashodhan 13y ago
I can't decide if it's a general aversion to public complaining, or if this company is really as arrogant and self important as this article made them out to be. In fact, after the thuggish threats, I'm pretty sure it's arrogance.
- gk1 13y agoWhat? Are you saying they are arrogant for outing a plagiarizer?
- andrew_gardener 13y agoI think he's referring to how they are arrogant for threatening them, sending them "design tips", and playing themselves up as sexy and dangerous all in the same message. They definitely have a valid point about the plagiarism but they're being really cocky and showy about it. Edit: Ya, they might have been trying to be funny or venting, I can understand that. But they really shouldn't have ANY kind of physical threat in there at all. Its childish and just pointless posturing.
- icco 13y agoI'm not sure about what OP was thinking, but I felt the same way. The article seemed to have mixed messages. One was, "how dare you steal from us" and the other was "Everyone steals". Looking at the two sites, they were both using such common web design styles these days, that I would have assumed they both based their site off of someone else's. If I were them, I would have stuck to the second argument, realized that no idea or design is a unique snowflake and everyone steals constantly.
- heyitsnick 13y agoI think they're just having fun and making light of a crappy situation.
- HNaTTY 13y agoAnd also showing off their design chops. What better way to show how much you care about design than to defend your site versus its copy? Personally, I plan to steal their idea for changing the title of a page when it loses focus. Not today, but some day.
- bdcravens 13y agoNo, outing the plagiarizer was appropriate. The tone of the post was what was arrogant.
- ChikkaChiChi 13y ago"But after some thought, Darko, our design lead (he's a very nice person) convinced me to give you guys the benefit of the doubt and not send the Croatian emmigration in Australia (known for working as bouncers and construction workers) knocking at your door." Yeah. You tend to lose the moral initiative when you pretend you have the backing of some nefarious street thugs. PS: Thanks for stereotyping Croatians, asshole.