I just deleted a conversation that took this thread off-topic.
Sorry for any confusion. Here's a summary of why I started this thread.
Copying patterns and graphic resources you find here to create commercial products to sell elsewhere is wrong.
Trolling this site just to find people to attract to your own commercial enterprise is wrong.
If you regularly contribute information, tips, techniques, resources and other things of value and you also have your own putz house site or some such that readers here find their way to, that's fine. If you just hang out here so you can figure out who our participants are and drag them over to your commercial enterprise, that's not fine.
Also, since the question came up offline, "clipping" a picture from this site to your Pinterest page is okay as long as the link back to the original page stays intact.
By the way, CardboardChristmas.com is run on an entirely volunteer basis, including the many individuals who share ideas, plans, and resources simply out of their love for the hobby. From a financial standpoint, it runs "in the red" 100% of the time (even with the few dollars a month we get from new member signups). We can only afford to keep it online because other sites we manage DO generate a profit.
Many, if not most, of the people now unfairly profiteering off all the volunteer effort wouldn't even know about putz houses if it weren't for this site and the people who have shared so much.
Is it rude to ask people bent on appropriating other people's intellectual property to stop pretending they're doing it simply for the "love of the hobby"?
- Paul
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