What makes you happy ?

It very much looks like Rachel Larratt has indeed stolen BME from it’s creator.

(Please consider all links here to be NSFW)
I used to read Modblog every day. I would also read Shannon’s page at IAM and at Zentastic. I am an ex-IAM user and there are photos of mine in BME Extreme. I’ve been reading a while and even debated joining IAM (but they didn’t take Paypal and that’s a whole other story). So it was more than surprising to see Shannon blog at Bodytwo that he was locked out of everything he had created. And it has continued. The guy isn’t allowed back. What he has worked for over years is now being stolen by a woman who has no history of presenting content. Sure she may have done financial stuff but the actual person who blogged every day and who drew the audience in has been thrown out.
Modblog is already stale - they have also removed the comments code from the template. Not just turned comments off, but changed the theme files. So they aren’t even prepared to speak and have comments - which is stupid because comments go elsewhere, you lose that last semblance of control, of keeping things in one place, of moderating and defending, of allowing the voices of reason and calm to also have an influence. It’s a short-sighted move when you are answering to tens of thousands of users. Zentastic and the IAM page are dusty and unused - yet despite all the garbage Shannon is still there blogging and promoting what he does and loves. Rachel Larratt might know cars, might know other stuff useful elsewhere but she has no clue at all about making sure BME runs. It doesn’t run because it’s cheap, or it’s got a large userbase or because it’s cool - it runs because of the ceaseless promotion by the one person. And in all my time reading there I can’t recall anything bar the one article when she has the gold star inserted into her eye. So who is going to promote the site? It won’t do it by itself.

The words below were at the bottom of http://bmezine.com. I copied them here because the Shannon’s copyright notice at the bottom of ModBlog was removed and replaced by something else. You can’t do that.

READ THE FINE PRINT: All pages and images copyright © 1994-2007 Shannon Larratt unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. …. All BME logos and slogans are trademarks / copyrights of Shannon Larratt.

So she is using his work, without his permission. That’s wrong. That’s theft.

If I had an IAM account right now I’d backup and quit. Delete and go. It won’t get better and from various blog reports it’s not so stable.

So ……. why did Rachel Larratt steal BME?