Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-2240864-20141021100032/@comment-24101790-20141130165656

VHarvest wrote: I am the author of Violent Harvest: Short Stories Straight from Creepypasta and 4chan's /x/. I am also the author of the Kindle novel, Nethergame. As a writer who got my start on the original creepypasta site that was operated by Who Was Phone, and as one of the original head moderators of the Monolith forum, I just wanted to say that I think it's very dishonorable that you are taking stories written by OTHER authors and trying to sell them for a monetary profit on Amazon. It took me a year to write my 80,000 word, 331 page novel, and it took me almost a year to write the twelve shorts in the Violent Harvest compilation. They are all my material, from MY brain, and I worked hard on them. If you were to take those stories and put them in one of your "compilations," I would be hiring a lawyer to sue you for copyright infringement, because that's exactly what you're doing, "Cleric." Now, if you wrote every single story, it would be different, but you are NOT the author of some of the legendary pastas found in your first "compilation," and what you're doing is a very thinly veiled version of plagiarism. If I were you, I would take them down, because if any of the original authors of those stories ever comes forward, you would be facing legal fees that far surpass any profit you would be making from selling other people's writing in a collection with your name on it.

Since you haven't ripped off my work personally, I don't really care either way. I'm writing this as an advance warning to help you. If Josef K, Whitehouse, or myself ever catches you putting our fiction in one of your "compilations," you can expect consequences for doing so.

Good day, and I hope you put some thought in to this, because what you've done is very serious.

-VH

You do realize that all of the submissions were entered voluntarily right? (That was the purpose of one of Cleric's original threads, to see who was willing to have their story put in the anthology.)

That is some good righteous indignation though. (Really heartfelt) I'll give you a couple of moments to think that someone might offer their story up for the chance that more people can read their works. As a writer myself (who has four novellas and forty stories posted on this website), I would love to have one of my stories included in the compilation just for the sake of being able to say that it was good enough to be published and read.