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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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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fortunately, that user's since been yote. I think that's the past tense of "yeet"? :)

[–] deliriousdreams@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ActualGrapesTasteGreen@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

No offense taken!

[–] nocturne@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dear gods... Is that user deluded?

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Yes, yes they are.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago

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

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago
[–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 1 month 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).