Remember Webscalpel?

[Undertoad]

Congrats on honing your stuff down to what's saleable out there, have you tried guru.com to get work at all?

We schooled you out of love, because you tried to come here and scam us into designing your logo. That's not what the community is all about, and so you became fair game. The web is harsh on anonymous people coming into communities and trying to USE them for things they are not really for. The community has to defend itself, and what you saw, unfortunately from your POV, was one of the most elegant defenses possible: the community turned around what was basically spam and made it a net positive for itself with humor and joy. And we've done it several times since.

Please hang out and see what we are really about. It's a community, so you truly get what you give. Asking for a handout logo without giving first is poor form but we are actually pretty accepting people and would gladly overlook it as a silly thing that happened.

I didn't see the defense as elegant. Especially when 90% of the sites belonging to the people who were part of the "elegant defense" looked liked dogsh!t. Whatever. It's all over and I'm just here for some exercise.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by antibland

...Especially when 90% of the sites belonging to the people who were part of the "elegant defense" looked liked dogsh!t. ...

You fail to mention that 95% of those are not commercial sites, and therefore are permitted, or rather expected to look like dogshit.