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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?

  • marcos@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • [deleted]@piefed.world
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      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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        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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      And all their alts.

      Which keep coming, but are super easy to spot (they are the ones cropping out author attributions:-P with usually some snark specifically pointing that fact out).

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
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      Found this part really funny

      At the end, music don’t have watermarks and neither do art. So why should comics have watermarks?

      Because is something that a lot of musicians do today, having a spundbite that they use in all their songs. There’s this one CRRDR that uses the roadrunner bip-bip sound, and in Baile Funk every producer had his own that are integral part of the songs and sometimes DJs mix the soundbite in interesting ways