Quote Originally Posted by protector View Post
I'm fairly sure munk did start with his site as a fun/hobby project when he first created it and added stuff such as a column with how much offense to be sending. The whole thing has developed since. The base of munkbot is just a copy of what Stinger created.

Stingers responsiveness seems fine. I haven't had any abnormal issues with getting a response from him. At times it takes longer to get a response, people are just busy. Everyone is from time to time.
I'd like to point out I made my first kd site (that was used by Serenity + lots of VAT kds) back in 2002-2005 -- That wasn't a copy of anyone. When I came back in 2011 and saw how crappy Stinger was (at least at the time) -- I made my own as topsy mentioned. Some things were "copied" from stinger, (e.g. the usual intel site stuff) -- could also argue they were copies of UPO, utopiapimp etc. -- other's were completely new stuff (like the browser extensions, ingame modifications (inspired by Angelus), WhatsApp integration, calling / sms'ing, slack integration, ingame IRC etc). At that point Stinger was using KD forum agent plugin which was really bad. I made a web plugin for Stinger while I used it and improved it for my own site to what it is today. That is what makes good intel sites nowadays (automated intel submission) which Stinger copied. I imagine stinger would still lack a ton of features if he hadn't been pushed to create them due to them coming on munkbot. Competition is good, but to argue that I copied Stinger is pretty far-fetched as I understand that most of his later additions have been copies of my features.

Of course competition goes both ways, and I would be lying if it doesn't motivate my implementations of novel features to keep being the system with the best and most complete feature-set.