that’s it. nothing more to really add to it. it’s quite simple.
Aye
this ain’t my art. this is your art.
also: LIGHT MODE AAA
I was about to make a comic about this tonight lol
i want to see it!
Stay tuned to this community! You should be able to see it soon
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)
honestly this is mostly because i’m about to bike out and help my comic book buddy with his taxes. but c’mon people, be respectful to the artists.
you can’t second your own motion stop talking to yourself
my only regret is that i have boneitis
i don’t regret my boneitis
Seconded.
I have a difficult one: the comic is Pictures for Sad Children. It doesn’t have a signature. It got nuked off the web when the creator had a breakdown (I think). The creator disappeared and has since transitioned, so attributing it to the then-published name would be deadnaming someone. How should it be attributed?
that’s a tough one. I miss PfSD. I loved that one. Saved my favorite strips when they’d pop up. I didn’t know the author transitioned. I’d attribute it as Pictures for Sad Children by [name, not deadname], but honestly i’d ask the author what they’d like if i could get in touch.
you’re still the same person under there, and were back then, just people didn’t know you by that name is how i view it.
The Wikipedia article attributes the strip to Simone Veil, and that’s what their current Patreon goes by, so I guess that’s what I’d go with. I had actually stumbled across one direct interview a number of years after the project wound down, and really appreciated her opening up about it.
thank you. I got really into webcomics when i was going through my surgical processes (gotta hyperfocus on something, right?). I had an RSS feed of my 150 favorite (rough number). I always liked to have a peek behind the curtain and was rooting for the best for my authors
This is more of a matter of not removing artist credits that were there. If it never existed then it’s fine.
I think that’s an iffy area, because whats the differentiation between “The image I found was already like that” and someone intentionally removing it.
Unless they admitted to it like some have, I don’t see that as easily enforceable.
Yeah, but personally I would do it on a “good faith” system. If someone accidentally put a cropped comic, and someone calls them out, if they edit it back it’s fine. But if they repeatedly post cropped comics, they get banned
Art by Current Name (formally known as Dead Name) would be my best guess
I mean I’d just ignore the dead name but I am not trans, I am probably not the right person to ask. The most right person to ask is the artist, the next right person to ask is the trans community in general.
I’m not a regular here, but this feels perfectly sensible
I’m guessing there must be a reverse image search API. Maybe making an attribution bot is possible. Just a thought.
I am in favour.
I find that it’s pretty rare anyone here would do it intentionally. Usually that comes from people just resharing something they found on Instagram or somewhere.
I agree people should try to find the original author and post the original in that case. But I think that should be called out instead.
Edit: This comment is redundant, but oh well
no worries. I both like and want to hear your opinion
I’m opposed to rules, but I support this philosophy. It would be a nice request to make of everyone who shares something.
I mean, yeah, I used to have to work with (not for) the irs and some people will take a simple, fair worded rule to the extreme extent of the abuse of language to defend a position. And Crab God knows y’all have seen me do the same on here I think it’s a trauma response or something merely from working with (not for dammit) the irs. But when you say “don’t be a dick” then you have to define what being a dick means and in þree weeks you’ve got a codex of scripture condemning anyone who so much as thinks of using a thorn to death. Wait dammit.
“Dont be a dick” is a fine philosophy.
I dont know how to solve the problem of not wanting rules but people being outrageous dicks to the detriment of the overall community. I simply don’t like rules, and i like the people who enact them and their lackies that enforce them even less than the rules themselves. Dicks be dickin tho, and that always sucks a big one.
Anyhoo… Thanks to all of the artists who share their content here. I very much enjoy it. I do my own little single panel comic, but im afraid to share.
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.
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.
I support this.
