Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-218.191.29.208-20170219075351/@comment-827190-20170219202706

I think the tracing issue is more related to the artist's history rather than overwhelming tracing evidence (my personal opinion withheld). Some people think the evidence was enough, some don't, but the spriters have a history of plagiarism which makes even a hint of tracing enough to disqualify their art for TJ09. Purportedly they have tried to be spriters on other sites and been denied for plagiarism. Kinda like herpes, once you've plagiarized one published work you're infected the rest of your life. I'm surprised they didn't just make new online aliases and leave their bad history behind them - could have avoided the entire experience if plagiarism was the only issue (which it regrettably was not but certainly didn't help).