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Feb. MR-I think they owe Aggro an article credit...
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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by AggroJones</i> <br /><br /><font color="red">Almost word for word?</font id="red"> Thats not really cool. [/quote] <br /> <br />Oh good grief. Untwist your knickers. <br /> <br />The methods are different and there's nothing close to a word-for-word copy. The MR article starts with a kit, so there's nothing about the work to stain and form the trunk. The sections of filter material are cut into squares, not rounds as Aggro's post. Aggro's method, as most of the historical methods, leaves a little space between filter sections. The Sweetwater/MR method fluffs up each filter segment and lets them rest against one another. The Sweetwater/MR mehod calls for trimming after the tufts are on the tree, before foliage is added (again, they started with squares, not rounds). Aggro spray paints, then puts on ground foam with hair spray, then trims. No spray paint in the Sweetwater/MR method, they go to ground foam, adhered with matte medium (although they do mention hairspray as an option). <br /> <br />Etc., etc., etc. Some similarities, some differences. Nowhere near a word-for-word copy. Not even close. <br /> <br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by loathar</i> <br /><br />Noah-Right. I made this post kind of tongue in cheek. I know that all this stuff gets recycled over and over. I just find it funny that some of the things we talk about here show up in MR 3-4 months later. I'm not knocking them. I think it's great that their spreading the info to people that don't know about these forums. I get a little bummed out when people reply "No, duh" to a post like this. I don't know, maybe it's MY dry sence of humor, or other peoples lack of any? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />So you're saying that when you wrote in your very first post phrases like: <br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by loathar</i> <br /><br />...sounds almost word for word ... <br />... I've said this before-They read what we post here, and then write articles about it giving credit to someone else.... <br />... If I was Aggro, I'd be shaking my head.[:0] ... <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />... you were jus' funnin'? <br /> <br />Accusing a magazine (and our host) of plagiarism isn't funny. At least not to me. <br /> <br />And puh-lease ... talk about the tail wagging the dog. This method was popularized in printed magazines and books decades before the web existed. Check out Gail Holland's article in the April 1980 MR for an example ... and it was probably an old idea then. <br /> <br />If you make an accusation, be sure you have your facts straight, then own it afterwards ... or admit you were wrong. <br /> <br />By the way, Aggro's method makes some fine trees. It's the same method I used in 1982, just <i>slightly</i> before he posted. <br /> <br />Jon
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