that’s it. nothing more to really add to it. it’s quite simple.
We need an active mod in this community. Any suggestions? I have no experience.
be fair. treat everyone equally. be kind, try not to get your feelings hurt even when people intentionally try to hurt yours. have easy to understand, clear, easily accessible rules. apply them even-handedly, even to yourself. it’s best if there isn’t some huge list of rules but like, people will push boundaries. your job is to enforce the will of the community, not your will, so poll the community to get their opinions.
this isn’t the mods’ petty fiefdom, it’s all of our petty fiefdom. it’s the posters and commenters that make the community what it is. a lot of mods forget that.
COUNTER-PROPOSAL: CROPPING THE ARTIST’S SIGNATURE IS NOW MANDATORY.
MOTION TO MAKE A RULE THAT USING ALL CAPS IS AGAINST THE RULES
OVERRULED
You also need some way to validate that its not interface specific. The amount of threads that ive been in that have had people complaining that the artist name was cropped, but in my app (voyager) ive been able to see the whole image, is too damn high.
On other hand there are those who say they intentionally removed them because they don’t like them.
But either way if interface cutting it off would be easy to show for the mods or others I thread
seems like the answer in that situation would be to ban those posters.
Exactly, but my guess is that poster is one of the main reasons for this rule change request
The way to hell is paved with good intensions…
The current proposal is not specific enough: With your proposal every post effectively requires an artist signature. There will always be some valid reason why there is none. Also who should check/enforce this? The single non-existing mod? xD
Keep it simpler and make a rule that says: Content created by somebody else requires attribution.
Attribution could be an artist signature in the comic, the name of the artist in the description or a link to the original source in a comment.
This comment alone should qualify you to become the second non-existing mod
My good dude, hell has the good food, the good music, the good wine, even the good Nixon(below) (the evil one went to heaven, have you seen the kind of people that go there?).
If I were to indulge in pedantry, the rule would be against cropping signatures, not requiring they exist. If it’s unsigned then there’s nothing to crop. I like your phrasing much better though, require attribution if you have it.
If there is no signature to begin with it cannot be cropped out
Don’t know if I get a vote here, but I am strongly in favour — especially as you’ve said that it’s not necessarily going to be a bannable offence. I think that rules can serve as a valuable statement of intention — like virtue signalling, except without the negative connotations of that term
everyone gets a vote and no one gets a vote. I just wanted to spark a discussion and get consensus
I support this.
If there’s no conveniently available version with the artist credit in the image, a link to the artist’s page in the post body I think would suffice.
Unless it’s a maga political cartoon. Otherwise yes.
Even then I still think citations are important. Gotta know where to throw tomatoes and cabbages
yeah fair, unless if it’s stonetoss
Might even be funnier if it’s a completely distorted version of his comic but it still has his signature
i mean okay but if i decide to mod i reserve the right to be a petty tyrant around pebblespew comics
fair but they banned
I disagree strongly.
I recommend adding a encouragement for watermark free comics.
I understand not wanting watermarks on like, a wallpaper community but comics?
Why?
Don’t like looking at ads.
My friend, it’s not an ad. It’s “hey, I did this. This is my work.”
The ad is “here is more of my work and this is how much it costs”. Do you see that in a watermark or signature? Ads encourage the exchange of money.
You think that giving artists credit for their work is the same as “looking at ads”?
I’m speechless. Truly dumbfounded. There are so many ways to respond, and none of them quite suit the unique situation that’s going on in your head.
Lol, this guy.
LOL this dude.
I respect that you hold this opinion, but like, one of my best friends is an illustrator and this kind of stuff hurts his feelings. Hurting his feelings hurts my feeling and i only got one. It’s personal to me, you know?
Why are people cropping out signatures?
i don’t fucking know. some people are merely posting the versions they find and sharing comics they love. some people are actively defacing beauty and it hurts my soul (yes i am being overly dramatic i am a DIVA QUEEN y’all know this)
I would say it’ll catch people who find a comic already stripped of attribution and want to reshare it, but that’s fine - the onus of fixing that / properly sourcing it should be on the one (re)sharing it.
I’m not a regular here, but this feels perfectly sensible
On a jabberchat I run, I go one step further and add all XMP data I can find, so fans can not only find the artist, timestamp, etc., but they can also request commissions if open from the
<Copyright>value.On a jabberchat I run
A what?
spoiler
(I know what XMPP is; I just think “jabberchat” has a funny similarity to Jabberjaw.)
