This is a based off of a true story happening around the world everyday:

Johnny gets home from a long day at school, he is very bored and decides he wants to create a skin for Minecraft. He opens up SkinEdit and starts editing a skin, only to realize he doesn't like it and thinks he is terrible. So, he closes SkinEdit and browses PMC. Then, an idea pops into his head. What if I can browse different skins on different sites and upload them onto here for easy XP and community respect? Johnny then got on MinerShoes and found a very nice Mario skin that someone had been working for about 3 hours to finish. He downloads it and puts the skin up on PMC claiming as his own and ends up ranking up 5 levels and getting loads of XP.

Well, I hoped you enjoyed my story, for now I shall explain further. This is basically what people think about when they are about to steal a skin and claim it as their own.

Obviously to solve this situation there is a report button, but even that can get quite annoying due to the insane amount of reports Moderators get per day. It's completely crazy, but honestly, this should never happen. Generally speaking, if someone reports you, there should be a better punishment than just removing their skins and letting them off with a warning. Okay, maybe the first time sure, but the second time, Moderators definitely need to remove their skin posting rights because I honestly see no other way.

You would expect someone with a right mind to stop stealing skins and claiming them as their own after getting in trouble once, but usually the people just shake it off and continue to rack up unearned XP. Like I've been saying in most of my other blogs, XP is the main factor of this. Levels and level titles are huge factors because people just want to be a very high level even though they don't even earn it.

Deleting levels is a bad decision but what might be a good decision is after a person say gets about three reports for stolen skins, he should be terminated from leveling up because honestly, if you cannot learn your mistake after three tries, something is obviously wrong. You should be able to learn and FIX your mistake after one try.

I think terminating the level aspect of those who cheat will for sure have them stop stealing skins because then they truthfully see no point in it since they cannot rank up. Then, if they stay active on the site enough, don't steal anymore skins, they can have their leveling up rights back. Just an idea, because I truthfully think that will definitely work in getting people to stop stealing skins.

I will also be interested if you agree or disagree or have anything else to add. Other than that thanks for reading this blog.