Cropping Comics

6 months ago by HexesofVexes to c/outoftheloop

Kinda curious about this; what's the deal with folks cutting off the artist's name and site?

I read the "ads" argument in the comments, but I don't buy it as attribution isn't an advert. So what's it actually all about?

marcos 47 points 6 months ago

There's one singular vocal guy around that doesn't like that authors sign their work and thinks that's blatant and dishonest self-promotion.

That's all.

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snooggums 26 points 6 months ago

Even better, they think a signature is self promotion but that users should instead provide links to the creator's page because that isn't self promotion while not including a link themselves after cropping off the signatures.

The user's logic makes no sense and they don't even follow it!

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deliriousdreams 17 points 6 months ago

What's especially crazy is he does this to artists who make web comics, but when he posts news articles he posts a link to the article and sometimes an excerpt, and some of those include the names of the authors. So the only "ads" that count are the signatures/watermarks/socials on web comics.

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Taleya 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah that's someone secretly hoping others will think they created the work

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Cevilia 6 points 6 months ago

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deliriousdreams 2 points 6 months ago

And has been making new accounts (and using an older account with a different name).

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SatansMaggotyCumFart 19 points 6 months ago

A user is going around trying to get a rise out of other users and it's working.

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ActualGrapesTasteGreen 11 points 6 months ago

It also doesn't help that the comm admin has been MIA for a few months. Imagine what would happen to your conservative community if you stopped moderating it for even a week.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart 3 points 6 months ago

My community is a pleasure to moderate actually I have had to do three moderation actions in the last three months.

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ActualGrapesTasteGreen 2 points 6 months ago

I hope you didn't take offense. Your's is the only conservative comm I haven't blocked frequent. I just remember what happened to conservative2 when that mod disappeared.

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SatansMaggotyCumFart 2 points 6 months ago

No offense taken!

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nocturne 18 points 6 months ago

It stems from here. https://slrpnk.net/post/35980172

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HexesofVexes 19 points 6 months ago

Dear gods... Is that user deluded?

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slazer2au 21 points 6 months ago

Yes, yes they are.

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Taleya 14 points 6 months ago

Beep? Massive pos. Regularly shits up yepowertrippingbastards complaining about mods modding them for being a shithead

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driving_crooner 5 points 6 months ago

Found this part really funny

At the end, music don't have watermarks and neither do art. So why should comics have watermarks?

Because is something that a lot of musicians do today, having a spundbite that they use in all their songs. There's this one CRRDR that uses the roadrunner bip-bip sound, and in Baile Funk every producer had his own that are integral part of the songs and sometimes DJs mix the soundbite in interesting ways

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FishFace 7 points 6 months ago

Artists have been signing paintings for hundreds of years...

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Taleya 6 points 6 months ago

ID3 tags

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Kolanaki 15 points 6 months ago

It's literally a troll doing a bit of trolling. Just block !Beep@Lemmus.org.

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OpenStars 7 points 6 months ago

And all their alts.

Which keep coming, but are super easy to spot (they are the ones cropping out author attributions:-P with usually some snark specifically pointing that fact out).

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Meat_Of_Nan 1 point 5 months ago

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