We(Lemmy users) are adblock users and are tired of capitalism that ruined Reddit.
All of us didn’t come here to look at ads again or to entertain capitalist dreams of embedding ads everywhere.
My recommendation is clear, let’s ban watermarked comics and work towards ad free community.
At the end, music don’t have watermarks and neither do art. So why should comics have watermarks?
Linking to the source should be the primary way of attribution.
Aren’t most of them just a handle or name in the margin? Seems ridiculous to think it ruins your experience somehow. You’re just being actively hostile to artists for some reason.
Nope. I just want an ad free world.
How is the post about not cropping the artists signature relevant here?
The discussion there is relevant to the topic actually.
Are you puppeting your bot account right now so that you can evade a ban?
Genuinely asking because this is just like. The worst take ever, but the time frame between the number of posts you post per day and the fact that there was a post recently about bots not being allowed all make me suspect everything you’ve said.
Keep suspecting then.
I won’t entertain you for free.
Do bad faith arguments with yourself.
Watermarks protect the actual creator’s stuff from people claiming it as their own work. This is a dumb idea.
As I said, why it doesn’t exist in music and art then?
They do…?
Signatures and watermarks are in almost all works of art.
A watermark on a piece of recorded music is something that is part of the digital composition. It can be in the metadata, it could be in the waveform itself. You’d only see it through analysis of the file.
Same can, and often is, done with video. Even code for software.
A good watermark is one that isn’t obvious, so it can’t be removed or tampered with.
You made a good point… For my argument!
Music don’t contain watermarks that ruin the experience in the work itself.
It’s available in text attribution/ metadata base.
Leave the experience alone out of the attribution.
While we could enforce the rule of link being the attribution, as a general rule it’s not what will happen when someone shares anything on the Internet. It will be ripped out of context and posted on random places with zero attribution.
Exhibit A: yourself. Your post history does only occasionally contain links.
I avoid it because a lot of times the source is Reddit or Instagram.
But if the rule enforced, I would attribute back everything. Because it became agreed upon this compromise basically.
In short, I would link back even if to Reddit. But we need to have a standard here to kick ads out before I do that.
What I’m hearing is that you don’t want to support the creators who’s work you repost here.
I don’t agree. These types of ads are the few that I’m actually okay with. because it’s an artist trying to support themselves, not a corporate schill using AI or trying to push a big corp.
The War and Peas comics artist has a patreon. I can’t afford to support them directly but I do want them to receive support.
Why don’t you want artists to get paid for their work?
Sigh
I want ad free art.
Then go make it yourself, or use an AI to pretend you have the talent to make art, and then you can choose to not put a name on it.
Oh, can AI generate comics?
Counter proposal: ban OP from this community along with anyone else who removes artist trademarks from comics they post.
Counter counter proposal: ban anyone who use this community to post ads.
hey have you considered changing your handle to ▇▇@▇▇▇▇.org, to stop watermarking your comments? cuz right now, seeing your name, i feel advertised to tbh
You can change the settings of your client to not show usernames and instead show only the name of the community the post is posted in.
Do you have some examples of “ads” or watermarks in comics?
IMO artist signatures/names or comic titles are not ads.
artist signatures/names or comic titles are not ads.
They are actually.
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