I understand wanting to continue this discussion after the thread was locked, but this is not the way to do it. You took something which was a community issue and dragged it from the neutral territory of the forum to a biased one.
So instead of doing something like PMing Kisai over the issue or making a thread about it in the Admin/Wrangler area where you can further discuss it, you chose to pull it away.
You brought it here where you can present your own opinion on the situation and you still don't seem to grasp the problem. "Even though I felt it wasn't [a threat]"? Your choice of words, "I'll wait, but I don't want to get DreamHost on the line and have [site] yanked on a DMCA violation." cannot be seen as anything but threat, especially coming from someone in a position of power. You whois'd his domain which shows an even more clear intent on following through with said threat.
You say you apologized for the threat. No, it's more like you apologized for voicing your threat. Your apology is more like "I'm sorry I got caught". "I'm sorry you got upset even though I saw no reason for people to take it so seriously."
If it weren't for the fact that his like for the community and helping it outweighed his dislike for you and your actions, I wouldn't have been surprised if he had decided to disallow use of his theme entirely.
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Date: 2006-02-08 05:48 pm (UTC)So instead of doing something like PMing Kisai over the issue or making a thread about it in the Admin/Wrangler area where you can further discuss it, you chose to pull it away.
You brought it here where you can present your own opinion on the situation and you still don't seem to grasp the problem. "Even though I felt it wasn't [a threat]"? Your choice of words, "I'll wait, but I don't want to get DreamHost on the line and have [site] yanked on a DMCA violation." cannot be seen as anything but threat, especially coming from someone in a position of power. You whois'd his domain which shows an even more clear intent on following through with said threat.
You say you apologized for the threat. No, it's more like you apologized for voicing your threat. Your apology is more like "I'm sorry I got caught". "I'm sorry you got upset even though I saw no reason for people to take it so seriously."
If it weren't for the fact that his like for the community and helping it outweighed his dislike for you and your actions, I wouldn't have been surprised if he had decided to disallow use of his theme entirely.