Comic Strips

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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
Politeness.
AI-generated comics aren't allowed.
Limit of two posts per person per day.
Bots aren't allowed.
Banned users will have their posts removed.
Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

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META POST: MOTION TO MAKE A RULE THAT CROPPING THE ARTIST'S SIGNATURE IS AGAINST THE RULES (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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that's it. nothing more to really add to it. it's quite simple.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There are some good suggestions in the comments, like providing a link on how to reverse image search to the sidebar to make it easier to find originals. It would be best if it were something that was encouraged rather than strictly enforced.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

For Firefox, there's a super-handy extension that lets you right-click on an image and then gives you a choice of eight different services (or all of them) to reverse-image search. I use it all the time.

Regardless, even going in the low-maintenance 'suggestion, not a hard guideline' route would require an active mod here to at the very least add the suggestion to the sidebar. Currently, there isn't one, seemingly. This gets in to sort of a Meta issue about communities that get abandoned to some extent. It's a real problem across the Fediverse, and I don't believe enough collective focus is happening to deal with the issue.

If you look at this thread, it's full of people saying, "yeah, let's do this!" and "cool, sounds good!" but nobody in a position to act is effectively listening. This is what it looks like when there's a bunch of chatter and nothing actually happens, sort of like a loud protest that doesn't actually change anything.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, if there's no active mod it's a non-starter. But people don't have any reason to know that's the case. Considering how relatively big this community is (for Lemmy) it's impressive it functions without a human mod as well as it does.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 21 hours ago

But people don’t have any reason to know that’s the case.

They can do the same thing I did, which was to click on the one mod here and see their activity history?

it’s impressive it functions without a human mod as well as it does.

I think that's what naturally tends to happen when a community hits a critical mass of subscribers, combined with a highly popular subject. Also, this doesn't strike me as a /c with much potential for controversy. *shrug*