What's next? Banning people for memes? If someone just posts an infographic with no context then it's probably spam and should be removed, but if somebody writes an original post and uses infographics or pictures or memes to back up what they're writing then I don't see an issue with it. Sure, provide sources if you can but this is not something we should be looking to punish if they don't. The entire context matters here as well. Is all they're posting infographics? If so, probably a spammer, but if they're using someone else's image to make a point then I really don't see the big deal here. Again, give credit if you can but this really isn't on the same level as the plagiarism issue we have here.
Would you ban me for this post or is fair use/transformative enough:
That's a funny joke. Do you have any more? Have you had accounts banned personally? You only seem to pop up to complain about sig bans
. The problem here for a long time has been campaign managers aren't doing their job properly if at all and hence why we have such a huge problem with spam in the first place. If every campaign manager here did an exemplary job then we would have little issue with spam in the first place.
Is that post bannable because I used an image I found on google? Should I spend time trying to track down the original owner to either source it properly or ask for permission to use it? If I had just posted the image then sure, pretty spammy, but not in context and used with the rest of the post to make a point.
Would you ban me for this post or is fair use/transformative enough:
It should be the managers doing the casting and evaluating case by case.
That's a funny joke. Do you have any more? Have you had accounts banned personally? You only seem to pop up to complain about sig bans
. The problem here for a long time has been campaign managers aren't doing their job properly if at all and hence why we have such a huge problem with spam in the first place. If every campaign manager here did an exemplary job then we would have little issue with spam in the first place. Is that post bannable because I used an image I found on google? Should I spend time trying to track down the original owner to either source it properly or ask for permission to use it? If I had just posted the image then sure, pretty spammy, but not in context and used with the rest of the post to make a point.