Comic Strips
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
Rules
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π Be Nice!
- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
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ποΈ Community Standards
- Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
- Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
- Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
- Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
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𧬠Keep it Real
- Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
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π½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due
- Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
- Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!
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π Post Formatting
- Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
- Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
- When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
β Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
β Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
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π¬ Post Frequency/SPAM
- Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 π) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 π) will be removed.
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π΄ββ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
SΓ, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
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πΏ Moderation
- We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
- When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Banned Artists
The following artists are banned from the community.
- Jago
- Stonetoss
- GPrime85
It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.
Web Accessibility
Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.
When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:
Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)
Web of Links
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
- !memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)
Other Comic Communities of Interest
- !bloomcounty@sopuli.xyz
- !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world
- !cyanideandhappiness@discuss.online
- !exo@discuss.online
- !foxtrot@slrpnk.net
- !garfield@lemmy.world
- !moomin@sopuli.xyz
- !oglaf@discuss.online (NSFW)
- !outland@slrpnk.net
- !pbf@discuss.online
- !peanuts@discuss.online
- !smbc@discuss.online
- !theboondocks@slrpnk.net
- !thefarside@sh.itjust.works
- !xkcd@lemmy.world
- !NoseEars@lemy.lol
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Then... don't read it?
Imagine conflating sexual assault with AI scraping. She is such a piece of shit it's unreal
Consent is consent. It's not exclusive to sexual activities.
Extreme comparisons like this have been used since the dawn of time to draw attention to a smaller problems. Just because it's smaller problem, doesn't mean it's not a problem.
In fact, there's nothing in this comic that specifically compares scraping AI to sexual consent. Sure the "ugly" guy is pretty stereotypical of how we represent rapists, but that's just a common association we share, not reality (I have no doubt the artist is fully aware of this).
If we really want to get into this, we can talk about the AI scrapping being done across social media that is adding children to the data set. Do you think everyone ai generating images of children has good intentions? Think their parents give consent for that "use case" when they posted the pictures to Facebook years ago? It's disgusting and should not be dismissed because "its as bad as the real crime".
So... don't read it?
Imagine using sexual assault as a pithy justification getting upset about a webcomic.
It was about consent anyway, which apparently you can't differentiate from sexual assault somehow.
The title of the comic is literally a play on the word rape
Scrapist is a name shared by many tools that scrape webpages and content as well. The content of the comic is not about sexual assault at all though. It's clearly all about consent.
Want to know the fun part? She didn't. You did that in your own head and got upset at the implications.
She absolutely is and you'd have to be incredibly bad at reading subtext to miss this.
What do you think the word "scrapist" is meant to imply here?
But I guess motivated reasoning is a hell of a drug.
Scrapist, a person or thing that scrapes info. It's not her creation of a word, it's been used for years.
It's also OP who made the title, not her. She doesn't do titles.
https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/1wcq4cx/scrapists/
Well I've never heard it before.
Even if it was created by OP that means they understood the message the author is sending loud and clear, even though you refuse to acknowledge it.
Imagine being unable to understand consent.
This is about copyright infringement. π€£
Copyright infringement is based.
Not when a corpo is doing it.
Copyright infringement is only cool for normal people, corpos should have to pay 5x the cost when they do it, cuz fuck em, they've got the dosh.
Eh fair. But I'd rather undermine the IP laws that allow them to claim ownership of the models created by the public rather than enforce the current IP system which is rather stacked against the little guy in favor of the mega-corps.
The comic doesn't say anything about sexual assault. Why are you comparing the topic it does talk about to that?