TSA, Now Available In Turkish

Peter Chapman 95 Comments

Web design isn’t difficult, in fact, if you’ve got the time and a bit of inspiration, it’s actually quite easy and if you’re powered by a pre-built CMS (like, for example, WordPress) the actual coding is somewhat simplified too – you don’t need to worry about the low level stuff, and can just throw bits onto the page as you need them.  That’s how TheSixthAxis works – although we started with a custom built system (thanks, Michael) we moved onto WordPress after just under a year and barring a few server issues the free, open source software has served us well.

TSA’s design and structure has gone back and forth a few times, but between myself and Alex we’re pretty happy with our decisions to push our original content a little harder but always ensuring that the newsy stuff is up there too – hopefully you, our lovely readers and loyal fans, also agree.  We moved to the current design in February of 2010, and it’s slowly grown and evolved since then to what it is now.

And, whilst we’re more than happy to help out other sites as we continue to grow (seriously, contact us if you run a site, we’d be delighted to take a look) there’s one Turkish site that’s continuously borrowed our design and our content without our permission and against our greater wishes.  We’ve tried to keep in touch and at first the site in question was happy enough to credit us with a link, but since then despite our best, friendly efforts, that has stopped and right now – well, you’d have a hard time distinguishing the two – look:

Yes, it’s like spot the difference – except, of course, one is in Turkish.  We’ve tried everything to reach out to these guys but it’s simply not happening (If anyone speaks Turkish that could assist with communicating between the sites that would be most helpful), so rather than continue to get emotional about the whole thing (you’ll notice some TSA staffers being a wee bit more grumpy than normal recently) we’re just to throw the site out there so you guys know that the Turkish site isn’t affiliated with us in any way and all the visuals, HTML and CSS are used without our consent.  To repeat what it says in our footer next to our copyright notice: thesixthaxis does not license content or design to any other site.

It’s a shame, really – but when people are in contact asking if they’re anything to do with us perhaps it’s time to say publicly that they’re not.  But, you know, if you’re Turkish (as some of our readers are) then perhaps the other site might suit your needs a little better.  Good luck to them, we certainly don’t want to wish them any harm although it’s safe to say they’d probably be much better off in this industry with their own style.  And again, if anyone out there running a gaming site or blog with some nice content wants to get in touch, cool – drop us a line – although we’d rather you had your own design…

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95 Comments

  1. Why not sue them? I’m sure that what they’re doing is illegal.

  2. I went on holiday to turkey once. Few years ago now my mate just rung me at work on the Friday and said can you get the week off as I have a cheap holiday. I went knowing nothing about the place and my geography at the time was iffy to say the least. I wouldn’t go again even though it was a 5* in Marmaris. Odd culture and everything upon everything is fake. I mean everything. Shame they are ripping you off as I think the tsa is the best there is.

    We should unite, with our TSA Armour, cyber weapons at the ready and take them down :-)

    • Aw come on, Turkey is a lovely place (you just have to know where to go) did you know, theres no train lines in Turkey?? (well theres one built by a Brit at the turn of the last century, it goes practicaly south to north -but i think it’s unused?) Also it’s a very poor country (outside of the resorts) now i’m not condoning what these guys are doing, just don’t rip on the country…they’re literally dying to get into the EU to garner a bit of stability, but we shun them for lets say, some ‘dubous’ practices (i.e their massive counterfit garment production) anyroad…i had a better bloody time in Turkey, than i ever sodding did in rural Egypt! /rant

  3. The sites sad, obviously its run by criminals

  4. Online war?

    forum spam the shit out of it.

    • they don’t seem to have a working forum… sad really, seeing they have a link to it.

  5. autobots, roll out!

  6. I hope any of the affiliate marketing links on their site still go towards the TSA pages instead of their own. If they do then at least they help cover the costs of TSA (a bit)!

  7. Just out of curiosity, but what’s changed between the first time this was reported back in August, and now, that means you could post “uncensored” images of the offending site? Was there some kind of restriction in place, or was it just out of decency?

  8. Say the word and it will disappear from the depths of the Internet.

    • As much as they are circumnavigating decency, laws, etc. So can we. I’m with Pemberton. A quiet PM and I can help make this all go away too.

      Yours sincerely,

      The Cleaner.

    • Alternatively, just email their domain registrar or hosting provider. No lawyer required and they should take action, especially if the registrar is ICANN accredited. Fill complaints with Google and the like too.

  9. Was looking at their “site” and searched for GT5 and some threads came up… and every thread had the same ammount of comments… but when i clicked on the threads it had none comments… FAIL!!!!
    the “site” doesn’t seem to have any members couse there are no comment on any thread (except for one that i found)
    and i wonder how many fans TSA has on facebook couse Leader Gamer has 1058 of them…

    • There’s the Official Leader Gamer group with …… 5 members!!!!

      • I like that, TSA have censored the name of the theiving cuntish web sites name!

      • Censor FTW!!!!
        OMFG 5 member??!!!! that is unbelievable!!! is there even 5 people in turkey with internet connection??
        i bet that those 5 people is the same person…

  10. they actually have a guy working in “legal and financial affairs”, I’m guessing he’s a pirate.

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