[Mike-mijen]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

A little advice for the ten or so free site submitters still out there:

People make mistakes, steal, borrow, lie, use search terms they shouldn't, etc. As awful as getting caught red-handed is, handle the situation honorably. Don't let the emotion of the situation get the better of you. In other words, avoid fight or flight syndrome.

Mike, I wish you would have stepped up and offered to pay for the design(s). Sy is a respected and honorable guy. I'm sure he would have far preferred payment over seeing you getting banned at a few link lists. He's a businessman, not a revenge-seeking bastard. This situation didn't work out well for you, Sy, or link list owners.

I took a quick look at Filthy Earl. I didn't see any of your sites using Sy's designs, so I didn't delete anything. (I doubt Earl sends 2 clicks a month anyway.) Your angry rant bothers me more than the design theft. But I've laid out more angry rants and giant, incomprehensible "fuck you's" than probably anyone on this board, so I'm not one who can fairly judge the situation. Attacks like that, though, leave a longer lasting impression than design theft.

If you have it in you, Mike, come back and apologize to those who may have been offended. Maybe the income from free sites isn't enough to get you to eat a small piece of humble pie. I don't know. All I can tell you is that this crowd is often much more forgiving than what might appear on the surface.

Thank you Useless for what you said.. First I want to apologize to everyone on the board for what I did.. I will contact Sy later and make financial amends and I will go to each of the Link owners and apologize personally ..I just felt attacked so fast.. at first I thought it might be everyone was lashing out on me because of the situation with MML. I understand indirect anger, Yet Even the fact that before I could delete the questioned sites I was thrown off most of everyone’s link list ..I was never approached privately by Sy about this ..He just asked everyone to delete me ..I guess I could understand doing this ..I would been more than happy to have him tell me privately to do this and all of you know I would.. I have never meant to do anything malice to anyone on this board....I am sorry for what I did ..It was a mistake I will not repeat it ..I hope everyone could forgive me ..if not ..ok then I will ask to be deleted and move on
Thank you Mike