save your apartment designs?

[Alexa_Darkness]

(02-06-2019, 03:43 AM)JCF Wrote: I've been asked about this account before privately, but let me state this publicly:

a) There are NO Twitter accounts officially endorsed by MnF Club other than @ClubMnF itself. The account's silence on the matter is not an endorsement of this imposter in any way, and the idea that we'd ever let a complete asshole host designs purely to piss off designers isn't worth dignifying with a response.
b) Unfortunately, there isn't much we can do if someone is hosting other creators' home designs off-site, or has developed a program to somehow extract a loaded background for an apartment/house. A similar issue happened with people copying 3DXChat designs, and the bottom line is that there's very little devs can do if someone is determined to copy player-created data. If we discover who runs the account, they can be banned for impersonating MnF Club staff, and I'll defer to the in-game team if they want to comment on whether that's already happened. And if you ever find someone who admits in-game to running the account, by all means report them.
c) I have reported on Twitter every tweet on that account which contains adult material (and is not flagged as containing it) and/or insults other people, as well as for impersonating @ClubMnF, and I encourage who finds it offensive everyone to do the same if they also think it doesn't belong on Twitter. Openly mocking designers on Twitter after posting designs without their authorization is technically outside the scope of the mod team, but it's a dick move nonetheless. I forget who's currently running the @ClubMnF Twitter account, but they'd need to file a report to get it removed and I know at least one attempt's been made. Again, anyone is welcome to do the same on Twitter.
d) I've heard the suggestion that Elizabeth_Gray somehow gave the files to whoever runs the account. This is, in a word, bullshit. Even if she was of a mind to do it, the mod team does not have any more access to a player's home design than players themselves would.

To sum up: No, we can't enforce intellectual property rights of home designs. But that account is sketchy as fuck and should be reported to Twitter.

I mainly posted the previous response because of what the individual stated on their twitter posts.  They made it sound like MnF Club supported their actions, which is untrue.  The image they posted in response to the designers reaction..  not only insulted all Players of MnF, but also the MnF Club developers themselves.

Most designers work hard on their designs, adding their signature to their designs, so others who like them, know who to contact if they want something similar.      

On another twitter post, the individual stated the following:

Quote:Hey!
If you like some design, but you dont like any stupid inscription or designers name, just write me in PM and I will help to remove it.

As Mods like JCF & Emmie (including the Vadim) know... I host a fan based server on discord called MnF United Nations, so when a lot of Designers got outraged about this individual, I thought it best to post here.

(02-06-2019, 01:38 PM)Emmie Wrote: Botj JCF and Purest_Elf. It's just not possible for us to deal with "design theft" or whatever you wish to call it. That doesn't mean we endorse it, or think it's good. We just don't have the capacity to deal with it. I don't know if it's been added to the TOS as of yet, but way it is right now, the moment a design is uploaded to MnF Club, it becomes public property.

One concern is, you can't download a design from MnF Club... so the only way to obtain public designs, is to hack the Game.