In an Effort to…
In an effort to curtail spam, trolls and other undesirable posts in the comments, I’ve added and increased spam and troll filtering to the website.
Hopefully this won’t effect the averaged commenter, but will mean that some comments will automatically be held before being displayed to ensure it’s not spam, trolling, or generally inappropriate.
And before any spammer, troll, or Gramar-nazi screams ‘FOUL’. I’ve always want to encourage free discussion where no one has to be concerned with feeling hurt or harassed nor have to defend the rights of others.
I’ve never objected to Grammar-Nazi’s pointing out mistake as long as it’s done in a tasteful and respectful matter. Slander and insults of any kind will no longer be tolerated. I reserve the right to remove any comments I feel is attacking this fundamental right for an harassment free environment.
If this does not work and slander continues, I will be stepping up the site security and requiring logins for comment posts, or I will remove the comments all together and leave comments to be put on the forums.
It’s a fine idea, in theory, but I’ve seen other websites degrade into blind, mindless praise and fall apart simply because the person in charge became overly sensitive to honest critiquing. I’d rather not see that happen here, but it likely will.
What do you consider an undesirable post? And how quickly will the distinction change until all you’re left with is nothing but fluff praise? If you’re in a bad mood one day, you might be inclined to block what might otherwise be perfectly acceptable comments offering constructive criticism or error correction.
I’m not condoning the libel that has been spewed forth by the anonymous hate-mongers. In fact, I applaud you for taking efforts to silence them altogether. Absolutely block those comments with nothing but insults. However, if there is a point made that can be applied to the work you do, take that to heart, but dismiss the hatred with which it was delivered.
As said before, I take criticism, and more then happy to let people post ‘This is a mistake you made‘ or ‘you could improve by…‘.
The whole point of me starting SailorSun.org was to gain practice at making comics, improve myself and to try drawing things I haven’t tried before.
I make mistakes. I’m only human. I don’t have a full staff helping me with editing and checking spelling and constancy. It’s just me in front of a computer. (thanks to all who offered to help Spell checking, but waiting for spell checkers seems to make the comic even later).
I’m am tried of some people using the anonymity of the internet to be jerks and mock myself and other for the effort put forth. Posting criticism is fine. But posting criticism and hateful/hurtful remarks (which has been done too much in the past) is not.
I feel it’s time to stop these trolls, by removing there power to post these kinds of remarks.
to error is human, to forgive is godly. so goes such sayings. i’m not the regular commenter type, just an fyi.
I agree completely with this.
Personally I feel it would be rude to comment on the quality of the language in the comments (as you know how to get me if you want my help on this) and don’t understand why so many people have to be rude about corrections.
In fairness, the quality of your comic is so high, I’ve learnt to look past any mistakes. It’s not as though you’re the only artist who makes mistakes either. Even the big comics like Least I Could Do occasionally make errors. Heck, even XKCD made an error that confused much of the userbase the other day.
In short, do what you feel you need to do to stop the trolls and those who can’t critique without criticising.
Please keep producing the comic, safe in the knowledge that your real fans really do love what you’ve been doing and continue to do 🙂
Peace out ^_^
Thanks. Now just need to figure out how to be as popular as LICD or XKCD
I think the best way to do that is to just keep updating regularly try to get more traffic to the cite. Aside from that it’s a matter of luck.
Hmmm.
Word of mouth and recommendation.
Some of the best new comics that I’ve started reading have been advertised on io9 or Kotaku (in the Sunday Comics sections). I’m starred under Kotaku using my Facebook account.
If you were perhaps to make a funny Sunday comic (in addition to the normal continuity, like how LICD does), I could keep recommending you there weekly perhaps if you like? Could entice people to start reading the whole thing. Otherwise maybe try to entice an io9 author to promote your comic.
I’ll admit, I’m not the best at helping in this regard, but if I can help in some small way, I’ll try my best 🙂
I doubt the thoughts of a few naysayers carry much weight to your readers. If they truly hated your comic, they would not read it. I think most of them wish they could develop their own artistic talent but lack the patience or discipline. Hence, they attempt to manipulate you to make themselves feel more influential or memorable.
That sounds a good bit like me. I want to do stuff like this and even have all kind of things written down (and some not written down because I’m stupid) for comics and the like, but I’m just incredibly lazy.
While I will admit to being an ass every now and then, I do not find it entertaining when someone is being an ass a majority of the time. I would not object if we had to start singing in in order to comment.(as long as we don’t have to do it through Facebook. I refuse to create an account there until absolutely necessary)
You make a great comic, though being able to write well is applicable to just about any profession. A lot of people in this information age only know you through what you write, so being able to express your insight accurately and concisely is a very important skill to have. This will not be time-consuming or slow down your workflow, but rather streamline production and roll into other aspects of your life as well. You do not have to attend a structured class, there are a number of good books which can do this well. I recommend “Writing Fiction for Dummies” by Randy Ingermanson and Peter Economy. As you read, do the exercises and then post them on a large website like deviantart for review. I would recommend using an alias to avoid reader bias.
Thank you for reading,
Val