Lecrayon....I fail to see where you fit into this discussion, as you are neither of the two parties who were obliged to determine whether the work was to be uploaded or not.

As already stated, if there was a 'falling out' of colaboration between a co-operative partnership at whatever stage it is not the responsibility of this site or its admins to determine what these 'partners' did or did not decide was to be done.....and certainly not for any casual third party.

This reason alone is why it is suggested that private email communication is appropriate, not public dirty laundry, good or bad.

My belief is that the public version of affairs is possibly less than exact, but other than that, much is a mystery [as it should be as it's actually none of our business]...

Doreen: Yes, if the posted work was identified as the work of someone else then it would be removed.

The problem in this particular case is that it is one of collaboration. Treetog, Mormegil, Alexandrie, and many other top skinners have provided a great deal of help to other skinners over the years.

Heck, one particularly well known icon/DX author who left in a huff about a year ago received a massive amount of help from Mormegil on technique and artwork.

But do they go around insisting that those people remove their work because they collaborated? No.

So where the issue exists is that ChiChi contends that they agreed he would not distribute the skins and apparently he says there was no such agreement. Even ChiChi doesn't claim to have made these skins. Only collaborated on them (helped).

Like Jafo said, it is not our place to decide what to do.

Then ChiChi would be asking for a double standard - other skins and themes are not required to list everyone who helped them.

ChiChi and her husband get "bashed" because they are incredibly nasty to people. This whole issue should have been handled privately between the parties. ChiChi and Hobnobber bring these problems on themselves because of their own behavior.

Doreen - I hope you remember that next time you read on SKinbase another extremely nasty post by ChiChiGirl that attacks me personally multiple times even though I'm not even involved on the issue nor was I ever involved on this issue. So you'll have to excuse me if I don't have a lot of sympathy for someone as narcisistic as ChiChi. Similarly, you'll have to forgive me if I don't find people who turn a blind eye to her flammage convincing.

Well said.

This incident inspired me to write an article:

 https://www.joeuser.com/articlecomments.asp?AID=1434&s=1