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Bonus Panel
Transcript
[A man in a suit stands on stage, arms outstretched before a crowd]
Suit: And with AI we won’t need apps anymore. We’ll have a single terminal from which you can find anything you want!
[A man in the crowd shouts back]
Heckler: That used to be called the internet!
[The man on stage shouts, his arms raised in anger. His robot minions rush after the heckler, drones fly after the heckler overhead as the heckler flees]
Suit: Seize him!
[Bonus Panel: The author shouts at the stage]
Author: Bring back Memepool!
We need a rule against ads.
Im on Lemmy specifically to not have ads. Those banners are seriously jarring. I blocked the artist’s sub for this reason, I don’t think comics with banner ads should be on the main comic sub.
I thougut I already blocked Beep.
Grimy isn’t Beep tho. Beep was all for removing attribution as he called even signatures “ads”.
What’s at the bottom is legitimately an ad for the authors new books on Kickstarter which support his ability to continue making these comics. But I understand frustration at seeing ads anywhere as I’m rather against it myself.
Lol I didn’t even scroll down enough to notice that.
My app doesn’t cut off images, I can see the whole post from my feed. Are people using apps that cut off images in the feed? I have to scroll past the ad if I want to view the next post.
I am not aware of any anti-advertising mechanisms available on Lemmy? That would be neat, if it were possible. 😅
I don’t always like, or agree with, every comic that gets posted to this community, but as long as said comic follows our established rules, I see no reason to remove the comic. We as a community have established that modifying a comic (cropping or otherwise remove any attribution, especially in the name of “advertising”) is not in the best interest of the community.
As an aside, I don’t know what Lemmy client you use, nor if it has a feature for filtering out keywords. If it does, you can filter out “SMBC” as cannedtuna has kindly tagged the comic series in the post title. If it doesn’t, it might be worth requesting that feature and/or finding a client that would allow you to do just that; filtering out unwanted posts is a really nice feature.
If there would be any rule change, I wouldn’t be opposed to requiring adding artist/comic series tagging in post titles. And I am certainly open to having that discussion with the entire community.
Are you opposed to having a conversation with the entire community about banning comics with ads?
We already had that conversation. It’s rule #4.
(emphasis mine)
Banning comics because they have aggressive ads is far different than cropping to remove attribution. Both rules can exist at the same time.
Your argument, as it stands right now, is not compelling enough to warrant a change in a rule that the community has voted on having.
Literally the opposite of having a conversation with the community. No content with 1/4 screen ads was being posted when the rules were made.
Let me remind you of a few things:
I understand you feel strongly about this, and whether you believe me or not, I respect your point of view. Show me a better argument than the one you are currently presenting and change my mind*. Also, you will need to change the community’s mind too.
~* This is not one of those typical bad-faith “change my mind” meme references you might have seen flying around.~
A small static banner at the end is about as unaggressive of an ad as you can get tho. And this is from someone who runs AdBlockers system and network wide.
If you consider that aggressive then I’m afraid what happens if a tv ad shows itself to your somewhere in the wild. I imagine you immediately punch through the screen in a crazed frenzy lest the animated ad make your heart stop from the sensory overload.
It’s a 1/4 of my screen
My apologies. I didn’t know you were viewing this on a gba micro. Pretty neat tho.
Attack the argument, not the person.
Any smart phone is having the same view as me I’m guessing. Maybe it’s app dependent, the images take up the width of the screen on mine. Because of the ratio, the comic fits neatly in my whole phone screen, a 1/4 of it being an ad.
🤷♂️ Idk. I get your point of view, and you’re right it’s legitimately an ad. I’ll consider cropping it in the future, but I’m a bit torn on it. Let me think about it a bit.
Im ok with the ad, tbh I didnt even notice until I saw this comment chain
Ya, I think cropping it would be the best solution but would probably start a debate about the rules and all that.
I think a level of ads is acceptable too, like just a one line at the bottom of the comic inviting people to the website or something.
1/4 of this comic is an ad though, it’s a lot. The comic takes up my whole phone screen top to bottom when browsing, so it’s essentially covering 1/4 of my screen. It’s more aggressive than actual banner ads on websites.