Kitty, glad to see you decided to stay.  

Looks to me like it all boils down to petty jealousy, and it needs to stop.

The "you/your" in this is NOT directed at anyone: It is directed to everyone. It is the non-specific "you" and equivalent to "one/one's". I did not alter it as it is not mine to alter.

Although I try not to judge, I do it just as others do. I wish we all could not be so self righteous. We all err. We all hurt others deliberately or inadvertently. "Judge not lest ye be judged." Very, very good words.

These are pixels, folks, Try taking a look at what is happening to people in every corner of this earth. Take a look at Haiti: Poor people who had nothing and even that, along with their lives and their loved one's lives has been taken from them. Thousands, millions are sick and dying and what are we all (me too) about?

"On the foolishness of judging others

The act of judgement is an act of pride. It involves looking to our own store of knowledge, putting together a few facts, figures or fancies, and coming up with some sort of answer or solution to a given problem or situation. All too often it is the wrong solution or answer, and because of pride, we refuse to correct course.

Judging others is an act of monumental pride - enormous pride, stupendous pride, galling, astonishing, fantastic pride. This should be understood. When you render judgement on another, you have taken upon yourself an awesome responsibility for making the correct judgement. Because, after all, your judgement is not necessary.

All things, big and small, invite your judgement. The condition of the weather, political matters, the taste of your food, a television program - at every moment of the day, something or other is inviting your judgement of it. And so often, and so willingly, you render it, without being aware of the consequences, without taking care of the responsibilities entailed.

You judge, and then to make matters worse, you believe in your judgement. You've looked at the evidence, you've made a judgement - it must be right! There couldn't possibly be any other conclusion to arrive at but the one your've chosen, could there?

What you don't see, don't understand, is that your judgement leads to suffering - your own suffering. It does not touch the person judged; he or she is free of you and your thoughts and your judgements. You cannot change their behaviour by even a hair's breadth by your judgement."

(www.well.com/user/queerjhd/sxonthefoolishness.htm)

well since everyone is non-shilantly bashing vStyler or "MaxStyle" people

That's not who I was thinking of. Guess I missed something...again!

Thank God,you are staying.Had me worried there for a min.

You're not a mind reader either. Or right. I couldn't tell you who is or isn't a member of Maxstyles if you put a gun to my head.

ENOUGH!

Lets get the facts straight, and end this now.

• The image in question is nearly identical to the one posted.  I have no doubt in my mind that she can draw it herself pixel-by-pixel, but a good rule of thumb is to keep your .PSD's.  Especially now with the lurking going on.
   
• I pulled the skin to investigate, it was not to appease or punish anyone.
   
• Djirate was not the one who initially reported it.  
   
• Note to others - Competition is not a bad thing.

Thanks for clearing it up ID.

And I am all for competition.

Just not Tanya Hardings version of it.

DJirate....how did you obtain the graphics from the skin?

Glad to hear u are staying kitty!

Looking forward to your kick ass skin, u go girl!

well if you must know Lantec(Mike) i didnt purchase the skin but in the screenshot the graphic in question was in the copy file animation and clearly visible. im glad to hear that i wasnt the only one who pointed it out...thank you island dog for taking atleast a small percent of the BLAME off of me...as i said before i have nothing against kitty at all and i think her designs that SHE COMES UP WITH are totally awesome...theres no other person on the site with a style like hers, but if i see something im gonna say something...and i did..to a MOD...i remembered not to make it a public spaectacle but it seems thats the way it turned out again because she had to get the pitty party going for her once again...sorry just my opinion...LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!

and i'd also like to add that i'm sorry im a nit picker but thats me...thats why i test for "THE BEST" and thats why i havent released a skin of my own yet, cause i tend to be too picky even of my own work

Damn Po, ya still remember TANYA HARDING?  Haven't heard her name in a long while.

I to am glad Kitty will stay.

Thats the way I feel also.Don't let them get what they want.

I've been hanging around here for a long time now (see member number) so I've seen this issue before. Determining the originality of artwork is difficult sometimes but important. However public flogging IS NOT the answer. If you think there is a problem with the artwork, that's what mods and sysops etc. are there for. Notify them, they'll check it out and render a verdict. This can be done without all these hard feelings. In a creative atmosphere, this kind of bickering IS NOT helpful. All you artists/skinners are talented people who work together to make our computing experience more enjoyable. Lets not do or say anything to change that.

Exactly. 

Unfortunately, it's hard to keep ego's in check.

Geez!  As Snowman said, what a heck of thing to wake up to. 

Told ya!

@RedneckDude