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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- AI-generated comics aren't allowed.
- Limit of two posts per person per day.
- Bots aren't allowed.
- Banned users will have their posts removed.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
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This is an advertisement for Reddit, Inc. that most people won't even realize they're being served until they click the link. I'm not contending the link is a big deal in a vacuum; I'm contending you've actively substituted a completely benign – even quite helpful – advertisement with a slightly yet definitely worse advertisement and are claiming this is rooted in staunch anti-advertisement ethics.
So you suggest removing the Reddit link?
It still wouldn't make it consistent given you're still advertising Adam in the post body. Anti-advertisement ethics aren't the problem; your lens for evaluating them clearly is, and I'm not here to bodge together the garbage it's feeding you.
I'm pointing out that your reductionist, black-and-white attitude is so convoluted and so unhelpful that it's not even practicable for you to follow while complying with your belief that – to the author and the reader – it's wrong to erase credit. And I can tell that's your ethical stance because you re-added credit despite no rule and despite sponging up public ridicule like you practically enjoy it.
Edit: I will tell you just to drive this point even further that your post is an advertisement for Ellis' work for anyone (like me) who recognizes his distinctive art style. So be sure to take it down or run it through a slop filter to genericize it.
So you are saying their should be zero credit to be ad free?
I'm saying that the logical end point of your idea is to either take this post down or remove Adam's recognizable art style by running it through an AI. Because this post is an advertisement for anyone like me who recognizes his work.
But then I'm starting(TM) to think you don't actually care; you just enjoy being a petty, insufferable bitch and don't actually think Ellis' credit at the bottom was harmful in any meaningful way.