You’re preaching to the choir here, I agree.

no one should ever feel like they have some kind of right to post someone else’s art.

It sure would be nice if the posts were the links directly to the artists own site, not rehosted elsewhere, that way the clicks might benefit them. It happens from time to time, but doesn’t seem to be commonplace. Hopefully when the mod returns, some changes will help shape this community for the better.

Oh no no, just the concept of caring about ‘karma’, not specifically relevant to that previous screenshot. Only reminded me of the exchange I described.

It’s not really occurred to me before that people make alts to manipulate votes here. I never saw karma as relevant even back on Reddit. I have some other accounts but mainly for when lemmy.world stops working. Seems quite narcissistic to spite vote with alts.

I agree, it’s unrealistic any user would dish out three times more downvotes than upvotes. All on posts too, none on comments? Certainly an alt, your instincts are surely correct.

This must be a holdover from Reddit? Last week I was having a conversation when the user suddenly pointed out they’d accumulated upvotes where I hadn’t and therefore was correct. I was the one upvoting their comments for contributing to the discussion.

When I pointed this out, they downvoted my comments haha.

You figured correctly. In fact I just looked and while I had seen the ‘motion’ post, I just gave it a vote and went on my merry way. Didn’t notice there was an upheaval going on.

I skimmed through a fair amount of the offender’s comments, and I could sort of see someone making a mistake and lashing out in refusal to admit they messed up, but as you say, the doubling down makes it seem they actually believe it.

The community mod sure is in for a surprise when they return. Hopefully it gets sorted out quickly.

Thank you for the additional detail.

Ah thank you for the context. As someone that only occasionally sees a comic post and doesn’t visit the community specifically, I hadn’t noticed the uproar. I appreciate the effort in your explanation.

Hopefully the mod returns and makes the needed changes. Maybe appoints another mod or two.

I wasn’t aware of that context, I haven’t seen whatever post where that was said. Obviously that’s the take of an imbecile, signing one’s own art far predates anything akin to modern advertising.

Imagine cropping Michelangelo’s signature haha. Whomever that was is a buffoon.

What’s the temperature on posts that didn’t have the citation wherever the poster found it? Would the etiquette here be to link to that reddit post, or simply not post any content that lacks artist attribution?

I’m thinking specifically the other day something was posted where the only source another user could find was it’s previous reddit post with the citation already cropped out. I checked myself and had the same result.

Eventually the IRS would garnish a person’s wages, yes? For someone self employed, that wouldn’t exactly be a viable option I suppose. They could put a hold on someone’s bank accounts and whatnot if garnishment isn’t possible.

You’d need to transition to a cash based lifestyle to circumvent this. Difficult to do in today’s world.

Sid Phillips, is that you?

Mr. W

I was thinking to switch my hot water heater to run on biofuel. I’ve got quite a few annoying neighbours.

Oh thanks for that link. Goes on a lot about a King, less about a Queen.

Anyway not entirely sure how it’s related to my initial comment in this thread, unless the connection being made is the British Empire being marginally similar to the European Union in that it is a collection of countries that may or may not be geographical neighbours? I think the whole bit about one of those collections being voluntary and the other… less so.

But I appreciate the contribution all the same, I’ll put it in the guest room.

Ta-ta

A gift of a link is nicer than an instruction to perform a task, regardless of whatever connection you’re trying to make.

I’ll pass but thanks, Santa!

I’m no expert but given the trade between the two nations, I don’t think a currency change would do a whole lot to provide insulation from economic bullying the United States is capable of.

Maybe Canada could build a moat haha.

Call me a rube but I’m more of a mainland enthusiast myself. Don’t pay much mind to uninhabited islands that are closer in size to Vatican City than Tuvalu.

Interesting fact, though capital city to capital city, Canada is an order of magnitude further from France than it is to England.

That’s an interesting detail I didn’t know. With this new knowledge I choose to live in the timeline where Canada puts a loonie on the back of the euro coin haha.

Sure does feel weird to think about a country not on the European continent becoming part of the European Union. Also, loosing the looney and the toonie from Canada’s currency would be a global tragedy.

Brennan Lee Mulligan touched on this briefly in a podcast (1:03:24) and gave his own example about taking some of books off his bookshelf and what he does with them. It’s difficult to grapple, and nuance is always going to play a role.

Everyone does some things right and other things wrong. Generally it takes repeated or extreme action in either direction to taint a person in the minds of others. I doubt many people have prints of Hitler’s artworks framed and hung, but loads still listen to music by Michael Jackson regularly. It’s all about context, I think. Trevor Noah’s recent example is pretty similar to this topic. A slur in one place can hold no meaning in another.

It’s very much a spectrum of our own beliefs, our joys, and the things we find repulsive. Like spilling black paint on a watercolour rainbow. To some it might go in the bin, others might still see the beauty in what remains. So long as you don’t hang it on the wall because of the black stains, I’d say you’re fine whichever you choose.