that’s it. nothing more to really add to it. it’s quite simple.
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.
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.
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?
I was about to make a comic about this tonight lol
(I know it goes against the one comic per week limit but it seems like nobody is respecting it, yet respecting not spamming)
i want to see it!
this ain’t my art. this is your art.
also: LIGHT MODE AAA
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
MOTION TO MAKE A RULE THAT USING ALL CAPS IS AGAINST THE RULES
OVERRULED
A good number of strips will be pre-cropped, or the equivalent. So what you’d really want when the signature’s missing is to have the poster do reverse-image as necessary so as to identify the creator, making sure to include that information.
There’s also the fact that doubtless there will be posters ignoring such a rule / guideline, ideally necessitating mod intervention. Meanwhile, the one and only mod looks like they haven’t been active in a month.
¯\(ツ)/¯
having a rule tells people “hey we want attribution in the strip so get those versions”
Are there ways this could be implemented though that would not punish people who accidentally posted the wrong one though. You have a good idea, but we also have very few contributors on Lemmy and we don’t want to discourage that either.
i mean we don’t have to make it a bannable offense, we just have to say “hey, go find the original if you can”. it’s a pretty relaxed community right?
sounds like the approach I’d appreciate.
Also, than you for the mod work.
someone’s gotta step up
yeah fair, unless if it’s stonetoss
fair but they banned
COUNTER-PROPOSAL: CROPPING THE ARTIST’S SIGNATURE IS NOW MANDATORY.
I disagree strongly.
I recommend adding a encouragement for watermark free comics.
Why?
Don’t like looking at ads.
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.
