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Lady__Rae527's avatar
6 years ago

Someone Harassed Me So My Build Gets Deleted

I had just finished a Plumbella shell challenge and uploaded it into the gallery after two days of working on it. Not even 5 minutes later, I get a comment saying it was a "nice build, but it obviously isn't yours," and what not. Um, what? So I reported the comment. Few minutes later my build is gone and I can't re-upload it at all. I am assuming this guy reported my build.

Ummm....why?

I have never had any issues with any of my builds, and on the very first shell challenge I do, I get a build removed and now I can't upload? Of all the people to get called out for plagiarism, I find it incredibly ironic it is me. If anyone wants credentials on why I wouldn't plagiarise another build, believe me, I have them out the butt; as in references, from actual people, who would back up my character. I am a historian, who does this in her free time as a stay-at-home mum and prided herself all throughout her schooling on having some of the most pristine percentages on those plagiarism bots. 

So EA, will you please remove this embargo or whatever this is and let me upload my build. I was excited to finally try a shell challenge, because I finally felt like I had improved enough to do it. But noooo, some rando comes along and decides that because it is someone else's shell it is not mine.

*face palm*

5 Replies

  • There isn't much you can do I've had it happen to me it makes me laugh when someone accuses you of stealing someone else's build or household when you haven't and then they steal it themselves I mean just the other day I got accused of stealing a household and I saw someone on twitch download a household I made two mermaids and then re-upload them as her own but I had the last laugh because it had my name as the original creator.

  • Player_jp5s5eav's avatar
    Player_jp5s5eav
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    I can kind of understand why this happens, though. When newer to The Sims, I'd edit houses, delete them and so forth, but then would want to return the original build on the lot back sometime later. These would be in worlds I'm playing in and so I'd just pop into Gallery, look up the lot name, find the original build and place it down. Despite it being the original Maxis build, when saved to my Gallery, it would say it was made by the person who saved it as a backup copy. In turn, on my gallery, I have a renovation I did of a Maxis build, but it says the original build is by the Simmer who had simply saved it as their backup and that I edited it. 


    Then there are other strange things, like when in the past I'd place down builds by other Simmers. Like those who have back up copies of Maxis builds that are being credited for building them, in my back up gallery, some of the original builds of others now say they were created by me! I'll look at it and think, "Uh... no... Good thing this isn't something I'm trying to share." In turn, those who monitor the Gallery probably sees this problem a lot and are unfortunately quick to make judgement in turn: I'm tired, there is too much text... this thing says this, they have shown proof, okay, remove from Gallery. Next one... same topic. The monitor goes into pilot mode.


    The Gallery tries, but it in itself has contributed to this problem of people losing precious builds and families in many ways.

  • EA_Leeloo's avatar
    EA_Leeloo
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    6 years ago

    Hi @Lady__Rae527,

    I get that it's frustrating, but what I can tell you right away is that if you didn't receive any communication from EA/our Terms of Service team, nothing from our side should be stopping you from sharing your content.🙂

    It's curious though, something else must be going on here. Do you get an error message or notification when you try to upload your build? Have you been able to successfully upload content other than the shell challenge?

    - Leeloo

  • I haven't tried to upload anything else yet - I am currently working on another build, so I will probably have another upload later today. I just took out all my mods except the OMSP shelf - so we will see if that affects anything. I didn't receive any error messages, and it shows up on my profile page, just not in my Library, the gallery searches, or in relation to any of the hashtags. 

  • So I did just try to upload a new build, and it is a no go. still won't show up in my Library/gallery....anywhere.