Bonus Panel
Transcript
[A man in a suit stands on stage, arms outstretched before a crowd]
Suit: And with AI we won’t need apps anymore. We’ll have a single terminal from which you can find anything you want!
[A man in the crowd shouts back]
Heckler: That used to be called the internet!
[The man on stage shouts, his arms raised in anger. His robot minions rush after the heckler, drones fly after the heckler overhead as the heckler flees]
Suit: Seize him!
[Bonus Panel: The author shouts at the stage]
Author: Bring back Memepool!
I am not aware of any anti-advertising mechanisms available on Lemmy? That would be neat, if it were possible. 😅
I don’t always like, or agree with, every comic that gets posted to this community, but as long as said comic follows our established rules, I see no reason to remove the comic. We as a community have established that modifying a comic (cropping or otherwise remove any attribution, especially in the name of “advertising”) is not in the best interest of the community.
As an aside, I don’t know what Lemmy client you use, nor if it has a feature for filtering out keywords. If it does, you can filter out “SMBC” as cannedtuna has kindly tagged the comic series in the post title. If it doesn’t, it might be worth requesting that feature and/or finding a client that would allow you to do just that; filtering out unwanted posts is a really nice feature.
If there would be any rule change, I wouldn’t be opposed to requiring adding artist/comic series tagging in post titles. And I am certainly open to having that discussion with the entire community.
Are you opposed to having a conversation with the entire community about banning comics with ads?
We already had that conversation. It’s rule #4.
(emphasis mine)
Banning comics because they have aggressive ads is far different than cropping to remove attribution. Both rules can exist at the same time.
A small static banner at the end is about as unaggressive of an ad as you can get tho. And this is from someone who runs AdBlockers system and network wide.
If you consider that aggressive then I'm afraid what happens if a tv ad shows itself to your somewhere in the wild. I imagine you immediately punch through the screen in a crazed frenzy lest the animated ad make your heart stop from the sensory overload.
It's a 1/4 of my screen
My apologies. I didn't know you were viewing this on a gba micro. Pretty neat tho.
Attack the argument, not the person.
Any smart phone is having the same view as me I'm guessing. Maybe it's app dependent, the images take up the width of the screen on mine. Because of the ratio, the comic fits neatly in my whole phone screen, a 1/4 of it being an ad.
Your argument, as it stands right now, is not compelling enough to warrant a change in a rule that the community has voted on having.
Literally the opposite of having a conversation with the community. No content with 1/4 screen ads was being posted when the rules were made.
Let me remind you of a few things:
I understand you feel strongly about this, and whether you believe me or not, I respect your point of view. Show me a better argument than the one you are currently presenting and change my mind*. Also, you will need to change the community’s mind too.
~* This is not one of those typical bad-faith “change my mind” meme references you might have seen flying around.~
Yes they were. SMBC has been doing this for years.
If I go on their site, the ads only start in May of this year it seems. I've never seen any of their comics with ads from before that time.
I've never seen ads like this in this community in any case.
He doesn't leave old ads for finished products. The first one I remember was for machine of death which was a book that came out in 2010. Just because you were unaware doesn't mean we need to have a community discussion again.
Lemmy didn't exist in 2010. In this specific Lemmy community, there wasn't any comics being posted with ads that spanned the width of my screen until SMBC decided to restart adding them.
What's your problem against having a discussion on it? Seems like you want to hand wave away everyone else's opinion since it doesn't match your own. Not very nice and goes against the spirit of Lemmy imo.
And again? This subject was never mentioned ever. Again, I'm not saying to modify the comic but outright ban any with aggressive ads.
I think you are wrong. That's reason enough. Just because you find something distasteful doesn't mean it rises to the need for a new rule. Do you have any other examples? Because it seems like you've seen at most 2 ads and are getting upset.