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SERIOUS BUSINESS.
So someone posted in a comm with a few icons, with the usual "the rest are over here, comment if you take them!" thing. Only, it mentioned two things that caught my attention: 1) it commanded that you upload graphics to your own server, and 2) You have to join the comm to see anything at all. And then I checked, and hey! It's a moderated community!
So. To see any of the icons (which were just cropped-down screencaps from Pushing Daisies- nothing added to them AT ALL to make them unique), you have to apply to join the comm, wait for them to approve you, and then find the appropriate post.
Because, you know, icons are serious business.
So I decided to leave a comment asking about this:
Her response:
Stunned by her intellect, I respond:
Her tremendously deep answer:
So then I hot-linked one of her icons and put it on my LJ without credit. I predict the internets will self-destruct in about.......... five minutes, give or take. I could probably speed it up if I modified the icon, but I'm in no rush.
Guys, I think I've found a new game. I'm going to see how many graphics-makers I have to badger until I can get a straight answer as to why they insist on making people jump through firey hoops of death to look at little 100x100-pixel pictures. Especially when they aren't that good, like in this case. This icon on this post? Is one of the three icons the poster was using to lure people into joining her comm. Because it's, you know, so stunning. I can tell a lot of work went into cropping and resizing this screencap into a little square!
So someone posted in a comm with a few icons, with the usual "the rest are over here, comment if you take them!" thing. Only, it mentioned two things that caught my attention: 1) it commanded that you upload graphics to your own server, and 2) You have to join the comm to see anything at all. And then I checked, and hey! It's a moderated community!
So. To see any of the icons (which were just cropped-down screencaps from Pushing Daisies- nothing added to them AT ALL to make them unique), you have to apply to join the comm, wait for them to approve you, and then find the appropriate post.
Because, you know, icons are serious business.
So I decided to leave a comment asking about this:
1) Icons don't need to be uploaded to a server- they go on your LJ.
2) Making people join your special comm just to see graphics? Really?
3) And it's a moderated comm so someone has to wait for approval? Really??
I mean, I understand wanting credit for your work. I get that, I do. But it's like you're taking lessons from the RIAA and making people jump through hoops for icons (icons!) and treating people like they are thieves. Are icons really that SERIOUS BIZNESS?
Her response:
1) headers do
2) yes
3) i'm usually quick
Stunned by her intellect, I respond:
2) Why? It's silly and elitist.
3) You're missing the point. You're still making people jump through hoops for icons.
Her tremendously deep answer:
okay, so don't join :)
So then I hot-linked one of her icons and put it on my LJ without credit. I predict the internets will self-destruct in about.......... five minutes, give or take. I could probably speed it up if I modified the icon, but I'm in no rush.
Guys, I think I've found a new game. I'm going to see how many graphics-makers I have to badger until I can get a straight answer as to why they insist on making people jump through firey hoops of death to look at little 100x100-pixel pictures. Especially when they aren't that good, like in this case. This icon on this post? Is one of the three icons the poster was using to lure people into joining her comm. Because it's, you know, so stunning. I can tell a lot of work went into cropping and resizing this screencap into a little square!
