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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

Rules

  1. πŸ˜‡ Be Nice!

    • Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.

  2. 🏘️ Community Standards

    • Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
    • Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
    • Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
    • Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.

  3. 🧬 Keep it Real

    • Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.

  4. πŸ“½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due

    • Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
    • Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!

  5. πŸ“‹ Post Formatting

    • Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
    • Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
    • When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
      βœ… Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
      ❌ Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/

  6. πŸ“¬ Post Frequency/SPAM

    • Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 πŸ–) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 πŸ–) will be removed.

  7. πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)

    • Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
      SΓ­, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]

  8. 🍿 Moderation

    • We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
    • When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Banned Artists

The following artists are banned from the community.

  1. Jago
  2. Stonetoss
  3. GPrime85

It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.

Web Accessibility

Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.

When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:

Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)

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Consume, consume, consume (lemmy.nz)
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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

My wife and I are huge consumers, of used and free shit. One of her friends invited us to pick at a house she had just taken ownership of. No eviction, some lady had an emergency, had to move back to the Philippines, gave her the house to settle a debt.

Total shack, mostly empty, whole hood was lower-lower class. We still made out with a pickup truck full. I figure we got at least $400 worth of goods for the house and more when we sell what we don't want. Took all day and night last Saturday to sort, clean and repair it all. After the owner lets some other friends take promised goods, we're free to take another pass. Fingers crossed I can score the $300 worth of power cables and the new color printer!

For example; I snatched two sets of solar lights, one set's the nicest I've ever had, glass globes! Both pair are the good kind with replaceable (no tools) batteries. Sanded, polished and sealed the oxidized panels, replaced the batteries, cost me $1.50 each. Figure the cost new at $50.

We pick up shit on the side of the road, just in our tiny hood, all day long. Keep the stuff we want or upgrade what we got, flip the rest at the flea market and FB Marketplace. Wife recently found a Harley Davidson bag. Sold it on Marketplace for $50. I swapped my wedding ring with a more comfortable sterling band we found in a trashed back back. Washed the pack, gave it to the kids. I replace the batteries in trashed watches, get $10-$20 at market.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

I like your guys' mindset. Come to my house and relieve me of somr of my shit. lmao

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I wish we had infrastructure to do that at a mass level and reduce the waste. And I don't just mean goodwill and donation shops, but a whole system to accept discarded things or consignments, clean and repair everything, eliminates any infestations and infections (or destroy it if impossible), filter out the junk (or send it to another station to be disassembled into parts if anything is salvageable, or into scrap materials if not).

Also ban disposable plastic that can't be usefully recycled, as well as ones that are intended for longer terms but degrade (some get sticky, some "sweat" who knows what liquid), and make all parts (plastic or otherwise) open source and public IP if the producer no longer wishes to produce them.