Thread "I'm causing a ruckus - more problems with the Duck that need publicity" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 9:06PM, Jun. 5, 2008

Sorry about that. I removed the post, I didn't know Carly responded to it.

Was it rampage network or whatever? That guy has more problems than DD right now, and is generally pretty skeezy. Avoid at all costs.

Agreed, been saying this forever.

Why would you go with a service where the only way to tell what each box in the contact form means is by analyzing the html itself?

No, that's not who it was. I can't even remember the site that was linked, but it wasn't rampage network.

Project fanboy is the name in the error Carly posted. If you google it's the .com one not .org.

Posted at 11:06PM, Jun. 5, 2008

So, a little birdie tipped me off to some interesting things being said:

Rich Johnston reports in his Lying in the Gutters column that DJÃƒÆ’Ã¯Â¿Â½Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¢ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¯Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¿Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â½ÃƒÆ’Ã‚Â¯Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â¿Ãƒâ€šÃ‚Â½s post has encouraged other creators to anonymously come forward about their own non-payment issues with Platinum, some of them owed thousands of dollars for months.

So I ambled on over to Lying in the Gutters:

PLATINUM PLATED

On that point it appears that creator DJ Coffman has had trouble getting money out of Platinum and as of this week has suspended their high profile series "Hero By Night" as a result, and he may be negotiating with Platinum to take his rights back.

As a result, a number of other creators not wishing to be named tell me they've been owed thousands for quite a while now.

Platinum declined to comment when asked.

Some people are owed thousands of dollars now?

HEY GUYS I JUST FOUND SOME MORE CRAP:

Read Tommie Kelly and Sean C's posts

I know why Platinum has so much money. Last year they asked a few of us who were hosting on drunkduck did we want to be involved in doing images for mobile/cell phones. We would get paid and all that stuff

So we all submitted our work and promptly never got anything from Platinum. No one has gotten paid yet.

But some new guy has taken over the area, so maybe it'll be sorted out!

And this

A particularly interesting comment:

This isnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t the first time IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve heard creators and artists complaining about Platinum. A friend of mine went monthÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s without getting paid and got the run around even. I was considering entering their comic book challenge but I donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t think they have the resources to offer anything of value to creators at this point.

Posted at 1:06AM, Jun. 6, 2008

None of that is news -the top part before you edited it-.
DJ has as much on Hero By Night's front page.
Kurtz has been down on Plat from Start to finish anyway… Nice fellow and sturdy founding pillar of the world of web comics that he might be.

As to the rest, I think that too has probably already come up in this thread. It doesn't matter, DD is still functioning fine. Plat is still actually going OK too.

There are some real issues going on with paying for current external projects, like those comic artists etc. And that Mobile thing was never really sorted out to start with, but is currently being straightened out by the VP :)

All that is slightly holding fire now at the moment but should be resolved shortly ^__^

Posted at 1:06AM, Jun. 6, 2008

All that is slightly holding fire now at the moment but should be resolved shortly ^__^

Excuse me if I take that with a grain of salt, we've heard "shortly" parroted around here a lot. Hell, I remember when the new layout came up and we were told that the white bar that always shows up in opera would be fixed "shortly."

Also, considering the information I got with about 2 minutes of research and Platinum's stock symbol ( PDOS.OB ), I find that very, VERY hard to believe.

I like this one, search for words like "debt"

Posted at 2:06AM, Jun. 6, 2008

Didn't you even read what I wrote? o_O
I said that most of that was OLD news and has already been in this thread and others. Fancy searching up some more redundant stuff?

I've given my assurance because of my better knowledge and when I say "hang fire" I'm talking about these things specifically, not layout or whatever else… Jebus man. -_-

You KNOW what stake I have in this site and what I feel. I don't say that just to be an empty cheerleader for plat!

Get a brain man. When someone gives you honest answers have to smarts to listen.

Posted at 2:06AM, Jun. 6, 2008

Didn't you even read what I wrote? o_O
I said that most of that was OLD news and has already been in this thread and others. Fancy searching up some more redundant stuff?

I've given my assurance because of my better knowledge and when I say "hang fire" I'm talking about these things specifically, not layout or whatever else… Jebus man. -_-

You KNOW what stake I have in this site and what I feel. I don't say that just to be an empty cheerleader for plat!

Get a brain man. When someone gives you honest answers have to smarts to listen.

Did you bother to read the part where I said that "soon" means absolutely nothing anymore? We've been TOLD soon, the layout is an example of us HEARING soon but never getting anything.

Posted at 2:06AM, Jun. 6, 2008

This isn't "soon" for you, this is absolutely to do with those specific current issues. And that coming from someone who is not a plat rep ok?

That's what I already posted.

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I Do appreciate your position though APC and you've done well to bring concerns to the public here, but with a lot of this there is a very real tendency towards higs-bosun type hysteria.
-NOT from you, but that's what these little hints and intimations fuel when framed the wrong way -> Dangerous foolishness.

So I put things into their correct context.

Posted at 3:06AM, Jun. 6, 2008

I was gonna donate 4.7M to Platinum tomorrow. They'll be fine.

Posted at 3:06AM, Jun. 6, 2008

Wow, this is all really scary. I had no idea there was a problem until I decided to visit the General thread and read all this. I've had no problems with my comic or anything; not sure what this "image bug" is. But I would be really, really sad if DD disappeared one day. It's the only user-friendly webcomic server I can find. I tried keenspot/ComicGenesis before DD and they were incredibly nasty and not helpful at all, and I had to wait two whole weeks before I could even get my site activated. Their whole registration process was very confusing.

Posted at 3:06AM, Jun. 6, 2008

Ok, Killersteak, you've linked to some hysterical blog loser doing exactly the kind of rubbish I was talking about. If I wasn't such a wonderful person your sig would link to gay porn and you wouldn't be able to change it.

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As for your concerns lastcall.
These kinds of user concerns are quite valid, but unfounded. If they were, Pinky TA would be gone from here.

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Now, all that needs to be said has been said and tools like Killersteak are just going to fuck around.

LOCKED. :gem: