Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-6078077-20160914152653/@comment-27636373-20160915025052

As one of the like 3 people who spends many painful hours on making truly original art (no bases, tracing, dollmakers, or color-overs) I say we shouldn’t tolerate it anymore. Anymore is the key word here. If it’s an old page that you can’t contact the creator, just ignore it or provide the credit yourself if you happen to be feeling ambitious. But there should be a zero-tolerance policy for people who outright steal other’s art, and those that do do it should get a warning before the page it edited freely to fit with the guidelines.



I’m going to be painfully honest here and say this; one of the main reasons I made a wiki page here was to prevent people from making one on their own and stealing my work as it got higher and higher quality. Yeah, not a really good testament to the site’s overall credibility, and something that should be changed as best as we can. It really irritates me since it just encourages people to not even think of their own outfits and get praise by finding some really good art that I know took several hours, if not days, and writing a story about them without permission, as if they have even the tiniest inkling as to how much time and love and thought was poured into those characters.