Cropping Comics

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?

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19 Comments

marcos@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 140d (5 replies)

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.

snooggums@piefed.world · 26 pts · 140d (2 replies)

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!

deliriousdreams@fedia.io · 17 pts · 139d

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.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 139d

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

Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 139d (1 reply)
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deliriousdreams@fedia.io · 2 pts · 135d

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

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 19 pts · 140d (4 replies)

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

ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 139d (3 replies)

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.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 3 pts · 139d (2 replies)

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

ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 139d (1 reply)

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.

SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 2 pts · 139d

No offense taken!

nocturne@slrpnk.net · 18 pts · 140d (6 replies)
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 140d (2 replies)

Dear gods... Is that user deluded?

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 140d

Yes, yes they are.

Taleya@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 139d

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

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 5 pts · 140d (2 replies)

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

FishFace@piefed.social · 7 pts · 139d

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

Taleya@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 139d

ID3 tags

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 15 pts · 139d (1 reply)

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

OpenStars@piefed.social · 7 pts · 139d

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).

Meat_Of_Nan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 85d
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