Jan. 8th, 2008

[info]mystery_muse

[admin] Concerning icons- please, no fanart-based icons on R_E.

We all love icons, and pretty icons at that, especially pretty pairing-icons. However, we (your benevolent and cautious mods!) would like to ask that icons made from fanart not be used on this community, unless the fanart is your own. It tends to offend the artists involved. It slipped our minds to mention it before, but we're making it formal now.

Please use only official art to make icons if you want to use them for community posts . However, if you obtained permission from the artist to make an icon of their work, of course, it's all right to use it here on R_E.

I THINK that sidebar pic is official, but if it's not I hope someone tells me so I can change it! ^^;;

We have such a thin and fractured fanbase internationally that we need to not piss off the artists that are still working and posting publicly. Too many Japanese artists have completely locked down their sites over this sort of thing; we can't afford to lose any more.

We won't be playing icon police from here on; we just wish to let everyone know to please consider this when you make or use icons.

Thanks for your understanding. :D

Clearly, also, as we don't have enough tasty icons in general to go around consider this an open-ended challenge to the community: make some awesome icons for public use and tack them up here! Who will rise to the challenge? :D
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