Have to give this yet another Big +1 when I saw someone (not saying who) who in addition to having a similat account watning to the ones described above, (ORIGINAL CHARACTERS DO NOT STEAL, roughly) it was almost completely illegible due to using RED FONT (furthering my basis that everyone hates night theme) AND the guy had no profile, it was all UAW. THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT'S USED FOR.
Account-wide content warnings are a great feature of this site, but lately I’ve seen many instances of them being misused. People commonly use them to tell others not to steal, copy or trace their work, which is redundant as the rules of the site already forbid art theft. I’ve also seen people use this feature to advertise their sales threads among other things. I think you’ll agree with me that neither of these examples are those of genuine content warnings and that there should be a rule against the misuse of this feature.
-1 idc what people do with their warning popup it's there for people to use and if you skip over it bc you assume it's a dont steal thing and you plunge into content that you didnt want tosee because u skipped a message idk
I personally have had my character and art stolen and shes across the internet now and its infuriating because someone contacted me this week about it. It stores the cookie so if your character gets stolen on here and you have at least a warning you can provide even more proof tothe admins but that's just me 💁♀️
Lotor Because people can do as they please with their own account like literally if your biggest complaint is having to click one more thing to see a character's page I'm really not that concerned. Before the warning you'd stumble into some crazy nonsense and now there's really no excuse for it. If you can't be bothered to skim something if you're actually interested in a character then I don't think of that as the person's problem but yours. Unpopular opinion obviously.
To add on to my reply on this thread (Since I've already +1'd this a while ago), what concerns me is that people tend to sound very passive-aggressive in their user content warnings, and most of the time, they're all just like "Thank you for visiting my page, now PLEASE DO NOT STEAL MY CHARACTERS/ART OR ILL BLOCK U!1!1!!1!!!1", which pretty much turns me off. I still support this suggestion, because of the misused passive-aggressive user content warnings.
i forget if i already did but im gunna have to add a +1
sorry but knowing your coms are open, what ocs you have for trade/sale, or if your characters have a copyright on them is not as important as warning someone that the profile may contain a phobia of theirs, controversial topics, contain gifs that may trigger epilepsy, etc.
unless you dont want customers why put a ad for your shop in a WARNING, that makes no sense in general tbqh
SynthBabe The problem isn't with people who actively use content warnings - it's with the people who don't use them well.
It does absolutely nothing to deter the people who you want to see the warning that "hey, don't steal this character." And that cookie nonsense? Cookies can be cleared, and it seems like the ones in question are auto-deleted after a single day. That is not long enough to send a ticket + have the admins do anything. In fact, seeing these warnings just turns off potential buyers if that is ever what they want to do, both for "ORIGINAL CHARACTERS DO NOT STEAL" and for art/design commission details.
But even that...the biggest problem is that people view the warning as a substitute profile, which is not the intended purpose of the warning - the intended purpose is to WARN PEOPLE ABOUT POSSIBLE CONCERNS. Which of all the ways the feature is considered to be misused, "ORIGINAL CHARACTERS DO NOT STEAL" is the only one which comes even slightly close to a warning about possible concerns. And even then...if the person in question wants to steal your characters, then they will, warning or not. And regardless of the warning, it's still just as (un)lawful to do so - the act of stating "Do not steal" is not a locutionary act like "Get off my property" is.
I can agree that if the viewer ignore the warning and then they get triggered, that is the viewer's fault. But that isn't even the main concern of this thread, it is the fact that stuff like "ORIGINAL CHARACTER, DO NOT STEAL" in the user content warning is a blatant misuse of the user content warning.
//also, copyright law extends to any published work..does that not include online pieces? like..you just sound like a 16-year-old (everyone knows all teenagers nowadays think themselves lawyers) when you bring up copyright law.
StrawberryLunala per my last comment I think we have very different definitions of problems and how we think people should utilize their own accounts. I can see this is a very popular opinion but all it is is a nuisance to people who seemingly don't feel they should be inconvenienced in THEIR experience instead of someone choosing to give themselves peace of mind. Which is incredibly entitled. Just because someone doesn't use a funtion the way YOU perceive it to be doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to use it? I'm not disagreeing sometimes it can be annoying but I'm not so childish apparently to just tell people what they can and can't do. Especially if its not hurting anyone which by the sound of everyone's comments its just a blown up problem about people being annoyed by a pop up. I read every warning regardless of what it says. It takes less than three seconds for me to skim for key words.
I didn't bring up any copyright? I just said its useful having it if another user steals your character in presenting some kind of proof to mods and the like. Its happened before. Please don't be so condescending its really unjustified. I've said my peace on this matter, its an annoyance but its not a hindrance. Thanks for the @'s but I have zero interest in debating something so trivial and this topic is the least of my priorities.