I need to add to this that blocking is not the answer. Actively down vote if your instance allows. The practices discussed here passively harm artists.
I've been thinking, how come I see multiple people bring them up and I haven't seen their posts myself? Turns out I've already blocked them at some point in the past
That’s why I tag instead of block. Then I get to play a little game and see if I can guess which moron it is before I see the tag. Let’s see now… is this one “AI bootlicker,” “Horndog trying too hard,” “Breathing app shill,” “Is ‘nonce’ the right word,” or “absolute fucking moron?” Oh wait, it’s “credit cropping little bitch.”
Quite frankly, I don't care why I did it. I block people to preserve my mental health, whenever I notice that seeing someone's replies is getting on my nerves. If that makes my Lemmy experience an echo chamber, so be it. I'd rather be stuck in my ways than have my mood ruined by words of a stranger I've never seen and will never meet.
No, this is not politics, you are not building an echo chamber. This is about respect, and people can respectfully disagree and I won't block them, but there's no reason anyone should have to put up with disrespectful users. I also blocked that one user that censored every swear word in shitposts. Fuck that person too. They both shouldn't modify people's works without permission.
Same!
...and now I wonder what they did to earn a block back when I did it.
They're pretty obnoxious, so it could be any number of things.
It would be cool if we had a web of trust. So if everyone you've been upvoting keeps downvoting someone, then that someone's posts are hidden by default.
Example:
post hidden due to poor reputation
Here's a long rambling story that looks like it might be interesting...
[pages]
... and that's why we should expand child labor.
I rarely block, but I tag with Voyager. That way I'm not missing any conversation, I'll see a warning for comments likely to be disingenuous, and they don't live rent-free in my head.
And then it hit me. You know why b__p is cropping signatures and remaking comics with AI?
It's not because of some misaligned anti advertisement agenda.
It's because they can't produce anything themselves but want to give the illusion by stealing other people's stuff and desperately trying to funnel all credit to themselves as the provider of funsies.
That is some pathetic bottom feeder behaviour. Defeatist about themselves to even try do something of their own and submitting to theft for validation.
Not only that, but also, how am I supposed to find the artist's other comics or the follow up if it's a series? Reverse search? It's incredibly stupid.
I was unaware of this guy and just looked him up.
Wow, what a loser.
I don't like Beep's opinions, or stealing, so have blocked him/her, problem solved
I get it, but doesn't that way of thinking naturally lead to echo chambers and yes-manning? It's better to clean the well rather complaining when we get dirt in our water.
It also leads to bad actors continually being upvoted.
Just a heads up that Beep has multiple accounts.
So the mods should do their job and block all of them when they pop up.
There is one mod. They haven't been active in months.
Ah no worries, already blocked.
Sadly I can't block them...
I'm too busy downvoting them!
I don't know who that is, but if I could verify/clarify by looking at their post history, I'd probably block them if what you say is true... ohhhhh hey, looks like the dipshit himself commented on this very post like an edgelord and is conveniently the most downvoted comment.
Joke with a message aside, I noticed I already had downvoted the guy multiple times before. Looks like he likes to post ai slop as well and becomes a combative baby bitch when called out. Even better, some of the ai slop uses the "hUmAn BaD" trope. And I did indeed check up on and confirm the cropping out artist credit. He's a combative baby bitch when called out on that, too.
he likes to post ai slop
That's an understatement. When Beep doesn't crop out the artist, they literally recreate a worse version of the comic using AI and post that. Yeah...
Beep wouldn't know what an ad was if it fucked them sideways and never called back
I think b__ps mum was fucked by an ad and walked out on them after realizing what a shameful disgrace they had produced.
B__p moderates Dubai which is even more weird, the city known for its uncommercial stance on everything.
Anyway, I've blocked that idiit. I ask the mods to ban them from the sub and add the rule that you are not allowed to crop out artists credits.
Just blocked them, thanks for the heads up 👍
Wheres the artist's signature? Did you crop it out??
BANNED
I am too embarrassed over quality to add a signature. I did this in like 20 mins on my tablet.
Nice job. All their posts are being downvoted.
Don't feed the troll.
In general, I agree. But in this case, my opinion (and I am open to suggestions here) is that it needs to be called to attention because the sole mod is Inactive. This troll's actions cause passive harm to artists.
It isn't just being a troll in comments. For that? Sure, whatever. But when it can cause actual harm to artists? I take issue there.
I get that "harm" here is kind of subjective. Artists make pennies on click (at most, and that's if they are relatively successful).
Making the comics less discoverable is more than a slight, imo.
Y'all don't have that asswad blocked already? Huh
My opinion is that blocking prevents attention to the issues at hand. The people that are just casually viewing won't block, see a good comic, upvote, and move on.
The real issue here is that there is a non-zero amount of these users that will save an edited comic and then share it. These posts should be proactively shamed and called out.
Blocked them after that post. Either they're trolling, really stupid, or both.
Blocking them isn't enough, because the harm they do with the plagiarism goes beyond stinking up your personal feed. This kind of stuff proliferates. People save the image to post somewhere else, and so on. Annoyingly, plagiarism doesn't seem to be against the rules in this comminity, but I really think it should be.
@lawrence@lemmy.world Care to weigh in?
The moderator has been inactive for months. That's why beep is getting away with all their rule breaking.
The admins are actively looking for mods.
Is there a post about this somewhere?
So, I read this community through RSS. How do I block him 😅
Click the three dots by his name and select "block user."
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