MOTION TO MAKE A RULE THAT USING ALL CAPS IS AGAINST THE RULES
this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
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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.
This comment alone should qualify you to become the second non-existing mod
If I were to indulge in pedantry, the rule would be against cropping signatures, not requiring they exist. If it's unsigned then there's nothing to crop. I like your phrasing much better though, require attribution if you have it.
Sensible. Updoots all the way
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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.
On other hand there are those who say they intentionally removed them because they don't like them.
But either way if interface cutting it off would be easy to show for the mods or others I thread
seems like the answer in that situation would be to ban those posters.
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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
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.
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"
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Here’s an idea: add easily accessible links so that even those less technologically inclined can easily reverse image search. Since many younger users are moving to Lemmy, they might not fully understand all the rules you’re trying to enforce.
This is A. Good. Point.
If i actually lose my mind and agree to mod this sub in a few months i'm saving this so i can come back to it, I have to look up how to reverse image search every damn time. And one of my first jobs was working IT building computers and programming bullshit dammit I'm not completely tech naive, just stuck in windows 7 because fuck you microsoft.
anyways, thank you Rusty, I am making you Honorary Something. Whatever it is, whenever we think of it, you are it. That was a great idea.
There's a great addon for Firefox, ‘Search by Image’, which can open reverse search engines straight from the context menu. Not very useful for those who aren't chronically online, of course.
Also, of all the search engines, Yandex is great at finding larger image sizes which are typically the originals (or upscales or poor crops). Afaik Tineye stopped updating years ago.
If it makes you feel any better, my laptop is still on Windows 7 lol. 🫡
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Images with the creator's name cropped shouldn't be shared anyway, plus they're usually deep-fried and look like a blurry mess. People should be looking for originals to replace the crappy quality ones.
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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.
I find that it's pretty rare anyone here would do it intentionally. Usually that comes from people just resharing something they found on Instagram or somewhere.
I agree people should try to find the original author and post the original in that case. But I think that should be called out instead.
Edit: This comment is redundant, but oh well
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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.
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
everyone gets a vote and no one gets a vote. I just wanted to spark a discussion and get consensus
I'm not a regular here, but this feels perfectly sensible
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