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Cropping Comics (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 45 points 7 months ago (5 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.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months 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!

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months 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.

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