thePropblog not allowing balanced reader responses.

[woofpug]

I tried to post this reader response on thePropblog which was not approved. I guess when you are not named "Tom" or if you disagree with the "owner" of the blog, then your comment is not approved.

Funny how the comments that "are" approved are those that agree with the "real" owner of the blog.

Guess what? It ain't Dan.

I also find it funny that the same "Tom" makes a lot of reader responses. He attacks anyone with a different opinion than himself, the "owner" of the blog, or the person writing the articles.

Doesn't sound like balanced "journalism" to me.

 

[The Prop Stop]

Who is his boss?

 

[Art Andrews]

woofpug, while I won't argue with your assessment, seeing as you are a "brand new member" to the site, but clearly not to the prop community, your words might have more weight if we knew who you were.

 

[Die Hard Props]

It seems strange to have a blog, and not allow posts from collectors. Surely the whole point of starting a dialogue is for people to respond?

I have never been a fan of this blog, nor how and why it was started. As such I don't go out of my way to read it. Like you said, it is very rare anything that has been written hasn't already been written in as many words on one of the forums.

Simon

 

[Die Hard Props]

Who is his boss?

You already know the answer to that Mark!

Simon

 

[JoeR]

Whilst some of your comments are right on the money, I think the guy deserves a break. Everyone has to start somewhere. It is interesting to watch a person's journey into the crazy world of original prop collecting.

Profiles do deserve some of the critique, they are hardly a shining example in the original prop hobby, their authentification skills are not great. One minute Joe M is on video claiming people are attacking props such as the resin Vader saber out of jealousy, the next minute they are pulled from the auction. I can't imagine companies like Propstore of Screenused making some of the claims that Profiles do.

I agree that the commentary could be slightly more balanced.

Joe

 

[The Prop Stop]

Only cuz you told me....

 

[micdavis]

"Profiles and History"

How can I respect your opinion when you don't even know the proper name of the company?

 

[Fidelio]

Who is his boss?

I thought you were only daft enough to 'claim' Stunt was Hero in your collection Mark.(Pull the other one with the Iliia costume on your blog)

'Tom' is probaly some made up name for feel good reactions to Dans blog, perhaps he should enlighten us with why the above post was not approved considering he is a member in the RPF.

 

[sycor]

Profiles has long been questionable in the original comic art world. I see no reason why they would be different about props.

 

[PropBlogDan]

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[PropBlogDan]

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[Qui-Gonzalez]

woofpug, while I won't argue with your assessment, seeing as you are a "brand new member" to the site, but clearly not to the prop community, your words might have more weight if we knew who you were.

As much as I am with you in thinking this is a potential SP account (Meaning Pug), I firmly disagree that the "Who" has anything to do with the content of his post. Some of the points "Pug" raised about this "prop blog" were very true. "Established" is the first one I saw. No offense man, you have been in this game for a hot minute. Before yesterday, I had not even heard of you. This could be because of the nature of the RPF and how I view it; This place is the penultimate prop/replica prop site.

So, reading someone who considers themselves as "established" in the prop realm and seeing they have just recently hopped on board here...well, it rings hollow. It reads like you are a freelance writer who is looking for the flavor of the month to hitch his "star" to. You talk about the countless hours of research. Well, welcome to prop collecting, man. It is tedious, causes MUCH infighting amongst collectors and MONTHS of hours have been put in on the smallest bit of hardware for the stuff I am interested in. This place is full of REALLY established collectors and researchers who have put in those hours that you've just started on.

Welcome to the RPF.

 

[Art Andrews]

As much as I am with you in thinking this is a potential SP account (Meaning Pug), I firmly disagree that the "Who" has anything to do with the content of his post. Some of the points "Pug" raised about this "prop blog" were very true

Again, I am not arguing "pug's" statements, but it seems he is calling out Dan for not being as transparent as he could be when he, pug, is doing a bit of the same.

 

[The Leader]

And people should be careful about "we know who your boss is" thing, because I'm not a sue-happy person, but most people in this hobby are. And unless someone has something other than an opinion to prove that, they should choose their words more carefully.

I certainly won't sue for these false statements, but someone else might.

Also, it's illegal to copy an entire site (either by grabbing the text or taking a screen shot) and posting it elsewhere. You might want to look into that law.

Again, I am not sue-happy, but some people are beginning to walk a fine line.

I don't believe that you have anything to sue for. Please do not threaten people with lawsuits that could never occur not only because it is annoying and threatening, but because it makes you look incredibly silly.

It also is not illegal to post a screenshot of a website, however large it is. Again, you are attempting to bully people into submission.

I'm not even going to touch the whole, "they treat me this way so I'll do the same" thing because that's more of a personal issue.

I don't understand why this thread hasn't been locked because it seems to just be a malicious beast, bound to wrest itself free from its handlers, rampaging across the land. Oh God, what have we done?

 

[PropBlogDan]

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[Qui-Gonzalez]

As far as the screen shot, that's a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. And I'm sure there are various other copywrite laws it violates as he posted my published on a private forum without my permission.

I believe this screenshot would fall under the "Fair use" doctrine.

Here is a quote from the copyright.gov website.

Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair:

• 1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes
  2. The nature of the copyrighted work
  3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole
  4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work

It would appear "Pug" is using the screenshot of your blog to do exactly what is said above. "Criticism" and "comment" are pretty obvious. You have dropped the "Sue" word a few times in your post.

 

[PropBlogDan]

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[dexter1138]

You did the same thing a while back that's been posted to the MPPC.

Steve Johnson posted a rant on his Facebook, one of his friends wrote you and you posted a whole story about a Facebook post. Did you check your sources credibility? Did you contact Elemental LLC? Did you contact Steve before posting?

The next day Steve apologized, removed the statements and posted one in favor of ADP and all involved.

You were the only one to post about this. You owe them a huge apology, but you didn't retract a thing, you left up the damaging posts, but only posted another post as a follow up after you spoke with Steve and he confirmed it was all a mistake.

I'm new, but I have been following the politics.

You attack ADP without any proof of any wrong doing, You attack PIH when they are doing an amazing job and even the best make mistakes.

It seems to me that anyone that's running an auction company besides Alec Peters is a target by the Prop Blog. Alec has much to fear charging bloated shipping and handling charges and treating his customers with harsh statements, just read the guys posts here and on the MPPC, scary stuff.

I don't read your blog anymore, but I will say that Jason runs a fine prop blog without all the silly politics and cronyism.

Dex


Edit was for the MPPC board, I forget which one I am on at times.

 

[PropBlogDan]

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