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Rules
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π Be Nice!
- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
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ποΈ Community Standards
- Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
- Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
- Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
- Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
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𧬠Keep it Real
- Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
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π½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due
- Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
- Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!
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π Post Formatting
- Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
- Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
- When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
β Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
β Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
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π¬ Post Frequency/SPAM
- Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 π) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 π) will be removed.
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π΄ββ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
SΓ, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
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πΏ Moderation
- We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
- When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Web Accessibility
Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.
When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:
Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)
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That was due to my updating the post changing the submitted date. In retrospect, I shouldβve added timestamps to my updates so it would correlate better.
I would be happy to add your links to the sidebar as a guide for posters. I will do this tonight after work.
Nice.
There are probably better ones. As a web developer, you may know a few.
The technical guidelines are the most general covering every situation & technology including those unlikely here. We're most likely dealing with Situation B in those guidelines
It states that following technique
plus an additional technique including any of
suffices. In practice, that suggests (in order of practicality to minimize effort)
If a web accessible alternative exists (eg, the image came from a web accessible web page), then set the post's URL field to its location and set the post's alt text field to "comic as described in link".
Otherwise, set the post's alt text field to "comic as described in post body", and set the post's body field to a text alternative. The poster will probably have to transcribe the comic. Text recognition technology may assist in that task.
If the text alternative is short, though, then setting the alt text field to the entire text alternative suffices as described in technique H37.
I just got around to looking at your links, and as a web developer I can tell you that's a lot even for professionals to read, digest, and understand; let alone most people posting to a comic strips community on Lemmy. Not that I am suggesting the people here couldn't understand it, but that it's a heavy lift for the context of people's usage. That said, I did find a link to demonstrate how to add alt-text to Lemmy images using markdown, and I also suggested people transcribe their posts into text and gave an example comic that does that. Hopefully that will help encourage people to post more accessible comics.