Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Coder's Rights
My first post on this blog. As I am the person thats doing all the coding for Ubu Panoozi because SOMEBODY *coughLeacough* is too lazy to remember much HTML. What I've been wondering about is...How much control on the graphics of a layout do you think a coder for a multi-person run website should have,assuming theres someone there to do various images? As a coder and an artist,I think that the person coding the layout should be aloud to do some,if not all,of the graphics for the layout assuming they are willing to. Some people seem to think differently *coughAyamecough*, as,even if the person behind the coding specifies a desire to do the graphics,their art may get pushed aside so the main artist can do the art,even if the complicates things and annoys the coder. Sometimes if the coder does the graphics before the webmaster/webmistress(assuming the coder isn't the webmaster) knows of the layout,they may get unfairly confronted for not letting the main artist do the graphics,even if the layout is just for fun. For some of those reasons,I have been thinking about quiting Ubu Panoozi. And I probably will. I plan to think it over for a while,though.
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Ohgawd. D':. That was profound.
But you can have lots of control. The layout will be an epic multimedia production, and unique.
And Lea won't do all the graphics. What with school and being lazy, she has hardly any time... You have advantage.
Sincerely, Ayame Sinbad Magellan.
Ooh, in retrospect this post is downright wangsty. I guess it is proof of your love of the spotlight, yes, I love the spotlight, too, but I don't make purposely dramatic posts about how degraded I feel.
That's doesn't mean I don't degrade myself, though. Terrible habit, but I do it constantly. I guess it is a feeble attempt to be humble, but it doesn't work, it makes me look a pathetic mess. But anyways, I don't think much of myself.
You could have talked to me about this instead of filling up your first post with such attention whoring. I never said anything contradicting your statements in the first place... You need to face the facts that we were letting you do graphics and art, you were choosing to ignore that and try to get more control. You never specified a desire to make art for any of the layouts we discussed, but we were decidedly going to let you. I considered your layouts and thought they were good. The bit about their art being pushed aside is, again, painting you as a victim. "Even if it complicates things and annoys the coder"? Yes, because the coder (AKA our friend Relith here) is the center of the universe, right? You continue to paint yourself as a victim with the "unfairly confronted" part. And hey, ever thought that, um, you never did have anything of the sort happen to you? And then you drop a bomb and threaten to quit, revealing that this post is less speculation and more whining and ranting about unfair things that never actually happened. You did this all for sympathy and control (see: my groveling, sympathetic post afterwards trying to get you back) and that's a little weird. Weaseling for control didn't work, so you pitied yourself a bit for being shunted to the side (sorry, but you weren't, we considered you equal) and then melodramatically quit. I understand the need for power, but this is simply ridiculous. I want to see your retort- it's very unlikely that it will be a good one, but it should be amusing. I'm sincerely sorry if you felt belittled, but the fact is most of the oppression that faced you was imagined. You had a lot of say, but it wasn't enough.
You're so used to being the ringmaster, having little ways to take away privileges and run the show, that you couldn't stand to not be completely in charge. I understand that in this period of your life, you were very fond of making your jealousy at the attention Lea's art received seem like indignation at unfair treatment, and often picked fights over this- I remember it well. It's just... this time you couldn't completely run the show, and it made you, coupled with your anger and envy towards Lea, very bitter and angsty. I honestly like your art- I always liked it, always enjoyed your unique style. Whenever I commented nicely about it, you coldly brushed it aside or whined: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN, UNIQUE? You're just saying that because you don't like it!" I'm not entirely sure if you're terribly insecure or conceited. You do seem, though, to very much enjoy attention directed towards yourself. If insecure, you hate yourself and would like to angst about it. If conceited, you feel like everyone is unfair to you and you're much better than that.
I can't tell which. Perhaps both.
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