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  1. πŸ˜‡ Be Nice!

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  2. 🏘️ Community Standards

    • Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
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    • 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.
  3. 🧬 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.
  4. πŸ“½οΈ 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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      βœ… Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
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      SΓ­, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]
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    • When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Banned Artists

The following artists are banned from the community.

  1. Jago
  2. Stonetoss
  3. GPrime85

It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.

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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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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 96 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Midsomer Murders has been ongoing for soon 30 years, but there's still people left to murder.

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 36 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I only catch an episode once on a while when it happens to be running on TV, but I've actually seen episodes in which the characters point at how absurd it is that so many murders happen all the time there.

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't it usually a different village each episode? I think Barnaby is responsible for the entire county

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Still an unusually high number of villages for one county.

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Midsomer county is bigger on the inside

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Doctor Who crossover episode where they confront the evil alien force thriving on murders

[–] Maultasche@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Sounds Like a great Red Nose Day special

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It started in 1997 and has had almost 150 episodes since then. An average then of like 5-6 murders a year. The UK homicide rate is about 10/million, so for a county of half a million it wouldn't be unreasonable. That kind of population is about right for a rural county.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

That said, rate of murders in which the killer perfectly timed a firework, carried across the lake by their trained dog, to go off at the moment they were visibly on stage with an alibi, is a bit lower.