To be honest your guest message doesn't even make sense and it looks like you stole the style off the default guest message that made the hack (forget the name of it)
and your status icons look extremely generic, but nice.
It's like... You find some nice pattern background, and you use it on your own site. You asked the guy who created it? No. You find nice forum old/new/locked icons, you ask the creator? No. You take them, graphics are displayed publicly, therefore, anyone can take your forum icons, and use them on his forum. That's not ripping, ripping is something completely different. Such as ripping a forum template, using it, and claiming that you made it. Or, claiming graphics work from Person A, as your own. But really, there's nothing bad in using such stuff, you should be proud that guy actually liked your guest banner.
Anyways, jason you're completely wrong. To give an example why, let's assume wjunction had a custom skin. I could easily rip it and create a site identical to wjunction. You think el_j is gonna be like "oh he really likes our site" no. He's gonna say, what a kid (if he was ever mean). You can't take other peoples icons or images without consent UNLESS they were released under a general use license. Now it's not technically illegal because well, it's a little image so who the hell cares. But it shows how bad of a webmaster the person is for running a developed site and still stealing images from other sites.
I think his point was that a 4* is supposed to be a well developed mature website. Even katz says it's supposed to be better then the average site. Stealing images shows that he is an amateur and the website is nothing special.
This is warez dude, what do u expect ?
You really think there's no rules in warez? You think all of us promote stealing from each other? Warez sites aren't run by the common thief, they're usually run from university students or graduates. Which do have a sense of morality and do what's right. You forget, the point of warez is to spread information and enjoyment to the people who can't afford it, not just steal for the sake of stealing.
So yes, I expect a sense of decency from these admins and you.
ps. Stop comparing warez to stealing, there is a lot of differences.
For the dumbasses that say "what are they"
1. We don't steal out of necessity
2. Our only goal is to help others
3. No one is hurt from our actions except a ceo's third pool (except small developers, and we actually do try and help them)
You should be able to think about others yourself.