Braethe
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Um..
I got this earlier today with no way to contact forum support:
Removed to adhere to our Forum Rules.
I apparently committed a copyright violation by posting my own art with my name on it, but that's my closest guess since there's no detail for what the "copyright rule" I disregarded is. The content itself was definitely SFW,more than comfortably transformative and is 100% mine.
The "Read me" in the Artist's Corner links to a forum rule post that is broken. I know because I tried to read them prior to making the thread and came up with zilch to look at. Where are the guidelines for posting art? What guidelines did I specifically violate? Where are the copyright rules I'm supposed to find so I can be familiar with them? I scoured the forum and didn't see any postings for forum rules. There's one in the Help section for using the forum but I saw nothing about copyright there. I even literally did searches for any posts with a title like "forum guidelines","copyright" or "forum rules" and came up empty on finding a post that matched. I spent well over a half hour scouring the forums in case I missed something available to read on the forum guidelines or some art posting rules. I mean I literally went through every page of threads in the Artist's Corner and skimmed through the help forum. What am I missing here?
No offense meant, but if this is how issues with the art forum are handled, I can see why it's kind of a deadzone and mostly full of memes. Maybe have information readily available if you intend for people to follow it and be clear about why you're taking certain actions. At the very least you could have thrown in a link to the guidelines or referenced something.
The only thing I can guess is that one of the guidelines I specified was against their guidelines which would mean they're encouraging me to to post my art with no watermarks or copyright protection,essentially creative death and very suspicious for any community trying to encourage creative sharing. A reputable space wanting art shared wouldn't force artists to take that risk with their work in my opinion. My artist name is my name (technically my pen name since only part of it is legally binding). A lot of artist names are a person's name. How am I supposed to share art and properly watermark it without my name showing? How is any artist supposed to do that if their artist name is their name (which again is common)? I want to share art but I can't just dump art online anywhere with no watermark. It's the equivalent to just asking someone to swipe it.
Alternatively, the forum staff might be implicating I've violated a copyright law because I've stolen something in the creation of my art, which I don't appreciate and consider slander. I do create generated characters but I can prove with receipts I have a full license to create commercial characters with it. My art is mine and I have never committed art theft. Just because art isn't hand drawn doesn't mean it's automatically stolen. I do draw, but I primarily use generated bases because I'm physically disabled and drawing strains my joints more. Is it possible actual art isn't allowed and just the signatures and avatars because that seems like an odd direction to take and puts into question why I saw some users posting fanbased projects. Like one that was put up recently was some kind of video using a game inspired character that wasn't hand-drawn, but I checked and it's still up.
I'm willing to follow guidelines but where are the guidelines? If anyone can clue me in on what's going on here it would be great. I was really excited to share some work with the community after the cake contest, but this is a huge letdown.
I got this earlier today with no way to contact forum support:
Removed to adhere to our Forum Rules.
I apparently committed a copyright violation by posting my own art with my name on it, but that's my closest guess since there's no detail for what the "copyright rule" I disregarded is. The content itself was definitely SFW,more than comfortably transformative and is 100% mine.
The "Read me" in the Artist's Corner links to a forum rule post that is broken. I know because I tried to read them prior to making the thread and came up with zilch to look at. Where are the guidelines for posting art? What guidelines did I specifically violate? Where are the copyright rules I'm supposed to find so I can be familiar with them? I scoured the forum and didn't see any postings for forum rules. There's one in the Help section for using the forum but I saw nothing about copyright there. I even literally did searches for any posts with a title like "forum guidelines","copyright" or "forum rules" and came up empty on finding a post that matched. I spent well over a half hour scouring the forums in case I missed something available to read on the forum guidelines or some art posting rules. I mean I literally went through every page of threads in the Artist's Corner and skimmed through the help forum. What am I missing here?
No offense meant, but if this is how issues with the art forum are handled, I can see why it's kind of a deadzone and mostly full of memes. Maybe have information readily available if you intend for people to follow it and be clear about why you're taking certain actions. At the very least you could have thrown in a link to the guidelines or referenced something.
The only thing I can guess is that one of the guidelines I specified was against their guidelines which would mean they're encouraging me to to post my art with no watermarks or copyright protection,essentially creative death and very suspicious for any community trying to encourage creative sharing. A reputable space wanting art shared wouldn't force artists to take that risk with their work in my opinion. My artist name is my name (technically my pen name since only part of it is legally binding). A lot of artist names are a person's name. How am I supposed to share art and properly watermark it without my name showing? How is any artist supposed to do that if their artist name is their name (which again is common)? I want to share art but I can't just dump art online anywhere with no watermark. It's the equivalent to just asking someone to swipe it.
Alternatively, the forum staff might be implicating I've violated a copyright law because I've stolen something in the creation of my art, which I don't appreciate and consider slander. I do create generated characters but I can prove with receipts I have a full license to create commercial characters with it. My art is mine and I have never committed art theft. Just because art isn't hand drawn doesn't mean it's automatically stolen. I do draw, but I primarily use generated bases because I'm physically disabled and drawing strains my joints more. Is it possible actual art isn't allowed and just the signatures and avatars because that seems like an odd direction to take and puts into question why I saw some users posting fanbased projects. Like one that was put up recently was some kind of video using a game inspired character that wasn't hand-drawn, but I checked and it's still up.
I'm willing to follow guidelines but where are the guidelines? If anyone can clue me in on what's going on here it would be great. I was really excited to share some work with the community after the cake contest, but this is a huge letdown.
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