2014-08-09 [Sunrose]: *glomps Veltzeh* ^^

2014-08-09 [Veltzeh]: Eep! Glomppage!

2014-08-10 [nehirwen]: Officially you can't display photomanips in your house either, which is ridiculous.

2014-08-10 [wicked fae mage]: It was answered. I meant: somebody has a naked drawing up but no banner, should I tell a guard they need a banner? Or was it more of a way to keep members from being harassed by people who are not fans of nudity but not necessary to have one, just an option?

2014-08-10 [Sunrose]: It was more to warn people who might take offense to nudity. When the warning is put up people would stop reporting it. You can report it if you think it should have a warning :)

2014-08-10 [Ravendust]: Officially you can't display photomanips in your house either, which is ridiculous.

yeah, at second glance I think this one maybe should have a bit of a change. Photomanip is an artform, and I've done a few myself. :) so maybe.... can post photomanips with a link to the stock that they used?

2014-08-10 [nehirwen]: Not under the current rules:
Images from other sites are not allowed even if they are "free". Note that:
- Taking an image and editing it does not make it your own. This includes, but is not limited to, photomanipulations.

But yeah, I strongly disagree with that one. :p

2014-08-10 [Stephen]: Current rules are way too strict. >_>

2014-08-12 [Ravendust]: For example?

2014-08-12 [Stephen]: For example, the photomanip rule.
Or the "no screenshots from games ever" rule.
Or the "four lines of copied text total" rule (even if we're not enforcing that at the moment..)
Or the "things we deem annoying may be deleted without warning" clause.
The exact definition of what is and what is not a "random" image.
Celeb images are currently not allowed, even if you were at a concert and actually took the picture (you have to be in it.)
Art that you copied/traced isn't allowed (which makes sense, to a degree), but that's how most artists actually start working up their skills.

Also, there's no rules at all on what you can post on your diary, or in a public/private forum. Also you're not supposed to display copyrighted work on public pages, and by definition a public page is something that can be accessed via direct link from your house - which means a lot of wikis violate that (even if we never enforce it).

So, they're strict and unclear. x)

2014-08-12 [Flisky]: Those rules are questionable. (At least some of them.) I like the four lines of copied text rule just because it's really annoying to have every other house be completely copied text. And copying images...is questionable. People tend to trace or copy images without giving proper credit as to where that image came from and we're supposed to be artists/writers and should be able to at least give credit to the original artist because we understand that art theft is wrong.

2014-08-12 [windowframe]: There is no obligation to read someone's house. It's their page. Who cares if you don't like the content, or if you find it annoying? I find some people's houses hella annoying, but I'm not lobbying for rules to ban them. Literally no other site I use bans shit because some people "find it annoying". It is absurd and elitist and just even... what? o.<

Most of the time it's really frickin' hard to tell when someone has traced or copied an image. It makes more sense to allow it and just ask people to reference it than it does keeping a rule that's so hard to enforce.

2014-08-12 [Flisky]: It's more of a "I wrote this poem" people that bother me. The people who claim things or don't give credit to the original artists. That's more what I'm getting at.

2014-08-12 [ally]: The four lines rule doesn't cover those cases. The copyright rule does. We're keeping that one.

2014-08-12 [Flisky]: The four line rule kind of cuts down on the whole copying lyrics and not putting the original artist.