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?
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?
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.
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!
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.
Yeah that’s someone secretly hoping others will think they created the work
Fortunately, that user’s since been yote. I think that’s the past tense of “yeet”? :)