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Comic Strips

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

Rules
  1. 😇 Be Nice!

    • Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
  2. 🏘️ 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.
  3. 🧬 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.
  4. 📽️ 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!
  5. 📋 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.,
      ✅ Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
      ❌ Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
  6. 📬 Post Frequency/SPAM

    • Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 🖐) 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 🖐) will be removed.
  7. 🏴‍☠️ 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.,
      Sí, por favor [Spanish/Español]
  8. 🍿 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.

  1. Jago
  2. Stonetoss
  3. 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

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Reddit seems to have introduced sitewide AI moderation bots that are sweeping up users and outright banning them, without warning or explanation, for crimes like including links in their posts. This has started to hit some pretty well-known artists in r/comics.

It's inconsistent and unpredictable - which makes it worse, since you don't know what the rules are. As companies like Reddit give up more and more control to unaccountable machines, this kind of thing is getting more common.

Reddit has always had kind of a strange relationship with contributors and what is often called "self-promotion". On one hand, it wants Content... But it can't seem to decide where it wants the content to come from.

It's nice that we've got alternative spaces like this.

Anyway, have some links:

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[–] PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Hey, your work is always welcome here.

[–] mschae@discuss.mschae23.de 43 points 3 days ago

This is so ironic, considering that linking to other websites used to be reddit's entire point.

[–] sychthys@lemmy.world 173 points 3 days ago (6 children)

While that's horrible and should not be happening at all...

...w...why's...why's the Reddit Alien is so caked up?

[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 135 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] sychthys@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (7 children)

who here got a problem with butts

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[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

someone had to say it, that alien has ass. I'm not against a finely detailed ass in art, but this seems hardly the time nor place.

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[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Reddit crappy automoderation had been known in the Spanish speaking communities for years.

"Negro" in Spanish means black as the colour, but the AEO may interpret it as that some countries who do not usually speak Spanish may use it as a racial slur.

This is no joke, once they auto-ban me for talking about how a black coloured wall would hide the grime better.

[–] kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

this is lies to cover up the racism problem in the hispanic reddit community.

we banned you cus youre even racist against walls!

best regards

reddit automod

beep boop

[–] Archimedes@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago
[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago

There are still -people- on reddit?

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 94 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Beep must have written the bot.

[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm getting multiple references to "Beep"... I'm clearly out of touch. Can you explain?

[–] killea@lemmy.world 74 points 3 days ago (2 children)

A lemmy user who likes to post comics and remove all references to the author/creator, I believe?

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 59 points 3 days ago (3 children)

A bit further than that, they went on a little crusade insisting that attribution is advertisement. They kept making meta posts requesting that the rules in the comics community be amended to not allow attribution.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

And going on a one man brigading mission telling everyone who dared to post that they needed to crop the image themselves removing the artists name.

Going so far out of their way to remove the name/website/anything off the image themselves and reposting it in the same community.

Is beep still ~~alive~~ active? They're my one and only blocked member

[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What an absolutely wild take and insane crusade to embark on.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Is beep still ~~alive~~ active? They're my one and only blocked member

AFAIK, yes, and they've given up on their weird crusade.

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[–] ech@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 days ago

They pretty much single-handedly instigated this comm getting a new, actually active mod team and a slew of new rules. Silver linings, I guess.

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[–] bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (4 children)

meanwhile they cosy up to advertisers and introduced hiding post history so no sane person can tell whether somone is a bot from their history.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 2 days ago

they also want to Hide potential AI bots too so you can tell which ones are AI and which ones arnt.

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[–] speaksintv@lemmy.world 78 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (19 children)

I was there 14 years and never had a ban. Not even a warning. In the last 6 months I was banned 4 times for comments ranging from “ice gonna mess with someone exercising their 2A and find out” to pointing out a mod’s contradiction when he said Harris both was anti-gun AND admitted she said in an interview she carried a Glock. He kept messaging me in DMs via modmail (which you can’t block) even after I asked them to block me.

My final, site wide ban for every account linked to my device was for saying Don chomo’s seizing of immigrant bank accounts was akin to Jews having their property taken by nazis.

On appeal they actually replied that the permanent ban stays because I was “targeting a group of people”. I didn’t even know what to say.

However if it wasn’t for that dumb shit it was gonna be for something else. I was a top 1% commenter too.

Deleted all my accounts, removed the app, and won’t be back.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (6 children)

11+ year old account here. 🖐️

I deleted my only account before I could get any sort of ban. F—k that whole site, bro. I don't miss it.

The only thing that irks me is when people link me to a Reddit post. Then I see some comment that makes an incorrect statement (there's one in each post), and I'm unable to reply and correct them. 🙈

[–] Nima@leminal.space 19 points 3 days ago (15 children)
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[–] Jessicat@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I was there for a good while too but got baited by someone who started spamming me with messages repeating the same questions on the same comments when I stopped responding. I eventually told them to fuck off and got shadow banned. I appealed, gave it a week and then deleted the account and the app. I’m done with them. They won’t even stand by their own decisions and explain what rule I violated. They basically brick your account without even telling you, it’s such a weird policy.

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I had a similar experience. Years of use with no issue then suddenly an admin crackdown on anti-fascist comments.

Give it a few more years and I expect the site to be mostly bots talking to bots, subtly mentioning products and services in their comments.

Anyway, it's time for me to drink a Mnt Dew and eat some Cool Ranch Doritos as I play the new 007 First Light on my Xbox Series X.

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[–] ProdigiousInsanity@lemmus.org 49 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reddit can entirely go fuck itself.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 16 points 3 days ago

that seems to be their priority...

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 43 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Post over here! We would love the comics!

Fediverse people are fun and actual people. Well other than the furries.

[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 days ago (9 children)

I do post here! I don't have my whole archive here, but I started !loveandhex@lemmy.ca recently and crosspost from there.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

Reddit is an open-air digital sewer with dead rats floating in it.

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (8 children)

So, honest question, if creators want to ditch Reddit, where do they go besides here? Fediverse ain’t that big yet.

For comic artists, there already seems to be a decent and growing community here. I’m a musician. There is (used to be?) a vibrant community on Reddit for songwriters, home recording enthusiasts, amateur producers…and it was a good place to network. I won’t go back to Reddit for any reason, so where do I go? Those communities here don’t have enough users to be active. I’ve tried.

[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

I'm sharing my stuff wherever I think I can find an audience.. Reddit will be included until it becomes untenable. (I exclude Xitter from that because I don't like Nazis.)

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[–] Aerosolcb@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I've posted this before, but I've got banned twice for inciting violence on posts that there not inciting violence at all. In both cases, I was banned when my browser refreshed to the posted screen. Instant ban. No human saw my post. So I deleted my account. Seems like they feel that they are too big to fail and are just trying to clean up its userbase before it goes public.

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[–] anas@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

oh my god I missed it on my first scroll, I can’t believe you’ve done this

[–] hanke@feddit.nu 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] Bondjimbond@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Readers can have a little Loss, as a treat.

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[–] TheDankMemegician36@thelemmy.club 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Good.

Reddit is shit and it deserves to die at the hands of its own stupidity.

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[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is shit, yet their banning people has always been inconsistent and unpredictable without knowing why. I got banned 3 years ago with absolutely no explanation why - just "your banned". When I did the auto-appeal I just got a response "sorry, your banned." Never a word as to why so fuck Reddit.

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago

I was banned for comparing israel to the nazis even though the whole fucking world agrees.

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's why every day, I look up a random reddit admin or employee and masturbate to them. I am doing my part to bring change to this world. If more people followed this example, we'd have more change in the world as the Earth turns where it stands, unless you have a long enough lever to pull it.

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[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 13 points 3 days ago

always send them a link to the fediverse instead of trying to fix a broken platform.

[–] Amanda527@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

That's not a healthy environment for creators.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

beep are you a reddit ai

[–] Ray661@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I had a 14 year account I think, maybe 15 year by this point, and I ultimately deleted my account when Trump got elected, but still used the mobile site on safari. Then a month or two ago the site became unusable as it shoved the app download link front of screen and covered all the content.

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