that’s it. nothing more to really add to it. it’s quite simple.

  • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    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?

    • RustyNova@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      This is more of a matter of not removing artist credits that were there. If it never existed then it’s fine.

      • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 months ago

        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.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 months ago

    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)/¯

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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        6 months ago

        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.

        • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldOP
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          6 months ago

          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?

        • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          Unlike Reddit, it’s possible to edit the link a post links to after the fact, so it’s possible to swap in an uncropped link later instead of just removing the post.

          • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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            6 months ago

            I’d be in favor of that. Not an instant ban rule but more of a “No link provided, please use TinEye or something to find the original and update your post”

  • Zikeji@programming.devEnglish
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • Beep@lemmus.orgBannedEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I disagree strongly.

    I recommend adding a encouragement for watermark free comics.

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldOP
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • carrylex@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • Sc00ter@lemmy.zip
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    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