Hi DARK RITUAL.
The reason I didn't want it reposted has absolutely nothing to do with 'wanting credit'. If that was my intention I'd post it and watermark it. The image in question was, as clearly stated in the quote you provided, put up privately on my Facebook page.
"Ohhh, look this guy is pretty important he has connections to Oda or knows things about one piece, so lemme go check out his Facebook page or twitter"
That would be impossible. My settings on Facebook are set to the strictest of security settings because I want to avoid people looking for me. I don't even allow people to Friending outside Friends of Friends. It's a means of communication between said close friends and industry individuals which I consider redon part of the former. That's precisely why I can ask him a friendly request. The reason was simply because I privately posted the cover prior to release and given how I trust my close friends, I wrongly assumed it would not be spread around. Said message didn't need to be sent in private because it wasn't rude or offensive. I attempted to make that very clear through the approach as well.
I don't think any part of a request that included:
A friendly greeting.
"Don't mean to bug you with this"
"but if you wouldn't mind"
"please"
&
"You didn't know so no worries dude."
was 'cocky'. But calling someone out in public without hearing his/her side? That strikes me as such. Not to mention
Couldn't you have just messaged [Greg] in private message?
Greg likes to use every occasion possible to hint at fact that he has like more info than most of One Piece readers and that he thinks it makes
him any special among AP forum members
I know individuals like yourself who have always despised me see it that way, but for long-time members that I've known a decade or more, it was simply something we enjoyed together as a joke. It seems only a select few such as yourself were actually moved to 'hate' as a response to cajolerly. That's why you should be happy to know that I don't post here about OP anymore for a number of reasons which I described in my last post. I've become far too involved with the series, to the point where even joking has been reposted on 2ch and the like as 'fact' just because I posted it here of all places. A joke between friends spawing a few haters here doesn't bother me, but the Japanese fanbase being mislead by a joke or postulation is uncool.
Peace ;)