Neocities

5 months ago

once again begging people to at least try to make an effort to credit makers of graphics, ESPECIALLY in "resource" galleries. that's someone's time effort and art you're not crediting, using as your own content, then whoever saves it from you will also not credit because you didn't provide a source. i get it for some things being lost to time but if i view a gallery without a single link i get so dismayed lol

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strawberry-gashes 5 months ago

tips: save the image with the makers name in it like makernamefilename.gif, then at least you or somebody else knows where to begin looking for the source

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strawberry-gashes 5 months ago

ngl i think it's time we shame ppl for blatantly not even bothering to try. and "credit to the maker" isn't credit lol. it's bad netiquette fam

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strawberry-gashes 5 months ago

oh and i see this constantly: repositories also aren't credit. someone taking something and resharing it isn't credit to the original maker, it's a link in the chain of the source being lost. saying where you got something is different from actual credit

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kipm4 5 months ago

alternate resolution: be a boss and make your own graphics

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divergentrays 5 months ago

This was such a part of the original old web ethos! So many of the old graphics sites I love to look through and collect have admonishments to not steal and give credit.

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strawberry-gashes 5 months ago

kipm4: i understand and appreciate the sentiment, but then someone else will take yours and do the same thing. i guess the problem i'm yapping about is the mentality that using anything is okay, and being too lazy to keep track of and source things is also okay

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strawberry-gashes 5 months ago

divergentrays: i won't lie, it's always been a problem, but i see it a Lot More nowadays. i think a big contributor is due to a lot of older sites being deleted, but i'm also seeing a Lot of contemporary, still-up sites' stuff being reposted. galleries with hundreds of images and not a single link

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smokoswebzone 5 months ago

This is much of why I began scouring DeviantArt and the like for the same stamps, buttons, etc. that younger me saved but didn't attribute. The anime sprites are definitely trickier to find credit for (still a WIP) but not exactly impossible either.

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strawberry-gashes 5 months ago

smokoswebzone: i had a similar experience where as soon as i found a maker of something, that started a chain lol. sooo many blinkies by the same few people lmao. i agree, older stuff can be hard to track down, though not entirely impossible

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5 months ago

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