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I need to add to this that blocking is not the answer. Actively down vote if your instance allows. The practices discussed here passively harm artists.
I've been thinking, how come I see multiple people bring them up and I haven't seen their posts myself? Turns out I've already blocked them at some point in the past
Same!
...and now I wonder what they did to earn a block back when I did it.
They're pretty obnoxious, so it could be any number of things.
It would be cool if we had a web of trust. So if everyone you've been upvoting keeps downvoting someone, then that someone's posts are hidden by default.
Example:
post hidden due to poor reputation
Here's a long rambling story that looks like it might be interesting...
[pages]
... and that's why we should expand child labor.
I rarely block, but I tag with Voyager. That way I'm not missing any conversation, I'll see a warning for comments likely to be disingenuous, and they don't live rent-free in my head.
Thatβs why I tag instead of block. Then I get to play a little game and see if I can guess which moron it is before I see the tag. Letβs see nowβ¦ is this one βAI bootlicker,β βHorndog trying too hard,β βBreathing app shill,β βIs βnonceβ the right word,β or βabsolute fucking moron?β Oh wait, itβs βcredit cropping little bitch.β
Quite frankly, I don't care why I did it. I block people to preserve my mental health, whenever I notice that seeing someone's replies is getting on my nerves. If that makes my Lemmy experience an echo chamber, so be it. I'd rather be stuck in my ways than have my mood ruined by words of a stranger I've never seen and will never meet.
No, this is not politics, you are not building an echo chamber. This is about respect, and people can respectfully disagree and I won't block them, but there's no reason anyone should have to put up with disrespectful users. I also blocked that one user that censored every swear word in shitposts. Fuck that person too. They both shouldn't modify people's works without permission.
I was unaware of this guy and just looked him up.
Wow, what a loser.
Not only that, but also, how am I supposed to find the artist's other comics or the follow up if it's a series? Reverse search? It's incredibly stupid.
I don't know who that is, but if I could verify/clarify by looking at their post history, I'd probably block them if what you say is true... ohhhhh hey, looks like the dipshit himself commented on this very post like an edgelord and is conveniently the most downvoted comment.
Joke with a message aside, I noticed I already had downvoted the guy multiple times before. Looks like he likes to post ai slop as well and becomes a combative baby bitch when called out. Even better, some of the ai slop uses the "hUmAn BaD" trope. And I did indeed check up on and confirm the cropping out artist credit. He's a combative baby bitch when called out on that, too.
he likes to post ai slop
That's an understatement. When Beep doesn't crop out the artist, they literally recreate a worse version of the comic using AI and post that. Yeah...
Just blocked them, thanks for the heads up π
And then it hit me. You know why b__p is cropping signatures and remaking comics with AI?
It's not because of some misaligned anti advertisement agenda.
It's because they can't produce anything themselves but want to give the illusion by stealing other people's stuff and desperately trying to funnel all credit to themselves as the provider of funsies.
That is some pathetic bottom feeder behaviour. Defeatist about themselves to even try do something of their own and submitting to theft for validation.
Just a heads up that Beep has multiple accounts.
So the mods should do their job and block all of them when they pop up.
B__p moderates Dubai which is even more weird, the city known for its uncommercial stance on everything.
Anyway, I've blocked that idiit. I ask the mods to ban them from the sub and add the rule that you are not allowed to crop out artists credits.
Blocking them isn't enough, because the harm they do with the plagiarism goes beyond stinking up your personal feed. This kind of stuff proliferates. People save the image to post somewhere else, and so on. Annoyingly, plagiarism doesn't seem to be against the rules in this comminity, but I really think it should be.
I don't like Beep's opinions, or stealing, so have blocked him/her, problem solved
I get it, but doesn't that way of thinking naturally lead to echo chambers and yes-manning? It's better to clean the well rather complaining when we get dirt in our water.
Given how they lean into it and how they act in this thread and others calling him out, they're doing it on purpose. To piss people off. As in they are a full on troll and need to be banished back under their bridge, across all instances that give a shit.
Beep wouldn't know what an ad was if it fucked them sideways and never called back
I think b__ps mum was fucked by an ad and walked out on them after realizing what a shameful disgrace they had produced.
Blocked them after that post. Either they're trolling, really stupid, or both.
Ah no worries, already blocked.
I blocked Beep because they constantly horny post and also post capitalist propaganda.
And it's neither good horny posting nor good propaganda, they need to up their troll game
Thank you. Beep is blocked.