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schmevil (schmevil) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-04-27 12:33:00

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admin: faq, admin: mod post

Two Modly Reminders
We've been getting complaints, fairly regularly, about uncut spoilers, and about posters going over the 1/3 limit. Apparently it's time for a refresher on the posting guidelines.

3. LJ-cuts are required for any post which has more than one image. Because the community is being followed on LJ via a RSS feed, we ask that you use the following code, in place of the usual [lj-cut]: [div class="ljcut" text="this is the text of the cut"] body text [/div]. Replacing [] with <>. This code ensures that images are cut on IJ and LJ friends pages. Remember, unlike with a regular [lj-cut], there is no hyphen in the div cut.

You may use one preview image, maximum size 400x300 pixels, outside of the cut; it must be work-safe and it cannot contain spoilers. If it's from a recent comic, it is not allowed outside of a cut, no matter how spoilery it isn't. Long text or text with spoilers should be behind the cut.

When it comes to spoilers, err on the side of spoilerphobia. Better to cut everything, than make enemies of your fellow members. Similarly, when it comes to NSFW material, caution should be your watchword. Hemming and hawing over the NSFWness of an image? Cut it.

4. No more than one third the length of any single work should be posted on this community. That's 7 pages of a standard American comic, by the by. In regards to anthologies, graphic novels, manga and pamphlets with backup stories, do not exceed 1/3 of the total page count. Exceptions will by made at the discretion of the moderators.

It is your responsibility to check that another user hasn't beaten you to the punch. You can use the tags, and browse the archives to search through past entries. We will be relatively lenient if you accidentally post a few extra pages of a comic that's 30 years old and out of print in any collection, but a comic that's in print will be deleted without warning.

We will love you forever if you're posting more than 7 pages from a comic longer than 22 pages and indicate to us its exact length, so we don't need to bug you about it.

Please, save us the trouble of going through the inevitable "12 pages? How long is the book?" exchange, and just state upfront why your 30-page post is legal. This also ensures that your fellow members aren't wondering why you think you're above the rules, and prepared to bring down the wrath of the Copyright Overlords.

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	thandrak 2009-04-27 01:37 pm UTC (link)
	I forgot. How do you do tags again? I got some more Whiz I can share. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	benicio127 2009-04-27 02:10 pm UTC (link)
	I've found it's easiest to hit "edit tags" either before or after you've posted. There's a whole list of the tags based on characters, creators, etc. if you go to "edit tags." I needed help figuring that one out, too. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	schmevil 2009-04-27 07:51 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, this. The IJ interface doesn't auto-complete, so I always post, then go back and edit in tags from the list. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pyrotwilight 2009-04-27 04:21 pm UTC (link)
	One question I've been wondering is how comic from Free Comic Book day and the such are (going) to be considered? Are we allowed to post more than 1/3 of them since DC is quite literally giving them away for free? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	schmevil 2009-04-27 07:48 pm UTC (link)
	I'll get back to you on this. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pyrotwilight 2009-04-27 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	Many thanks. I've been wondering since a bunch of series even have first issues completely available on the net for example. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	schmevil 2009-04-29 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	Posting the full comic is fine, but you'll need to note that it's a FCBD book, for future reference. :) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	pyrotwilight 2009-04-30 12:10 am UTC (link)
	Thank ye kindly. I have one comic in mind already. A little tangent q just to make sure. Do the full comics posted also count? Like when Newsarama posted all of Project Superpowers #0 or 1? Or Image and how it posts the first issue of each series completely? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

schmevil
2009-05-01 04:18 pm UTC (link)

Just do the same thing. Link to, or reference the original posting.

But we talked about it a bit more, and we'd like to members not to post the full book in one shot, because that keeps others from joining in the fun. So what we'll do is this, as a community, we can post the whole book, but we encourage each person to focus on a particular aspect, or arc to post. Particularly since the FCBD books are new, and new books always cause some, uh, wrestling.

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	icon_uk 2009-04-27 06:57 pm UTC (link)
	One odd thing I've found with the cut tags, is that if you're editing in HTML and have input the new codes for a cut, then shift to Rich Text to see what it looks like, if you go BACK to HTML for more editing, it somehow automatically strips out the new code and puts the old lj-cut codes back by itself. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	schmevil 2009-04-27 07:50 pm UTC (link)
	I do not trust the Rich Text editor. It borks up code pretty regularly. I've also learned that you can't switch between the two - it's not just cuts that happens with, but other code as well. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kingrockwell 2009-04-27 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	"In regards to anthologies, graphic novels, manga and pamphlets with backup stories, do not exceed 1/3 of the total page count." Of the story or the book? This has always been a little unclear to me. (Reply to this) (Thread)

schmevil
2009-04-27 11:24 pm UTC (link)

That kind of depends on the book. Comics are published in so many different forms. For American mainstream stuff, you can generally follow this rule of thumb:

OGNs - complete work.
Trades - made of collected complete works (ie. pamphlets).
Pamphlets with backup stories - main story and backup are separate complete works.

For manga, apply the same logic. Although because the manga industry works a little differently, we're more open to posting large chunks from collected manga, than American trades.

For lit comics, if it's a book of collected short stories by different creative teams, then we'd have to treat each story as a separate work. In the case of a collection of interlinked shorts that are meant to stand as a whole, then we might treat the whole book as the complete work, and the individual stories as chapters.

If you're not sure about a particular work, drop us a line. We're open to making exceptions, based on the history of the book (are the publishers/creators especially relaxed about sharing? was the story published in a variety of formats? is the copyright lapsed/murky? is it out of print or exceptionally old?).

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	kingrockwell 2009-04-27 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	The story in particular is Mike Allred's "For The Record", the first story featuring Frank Einstein, from Creatures Of The Id (1990). It's eight pages out of the book's thirty, though a color version of the story's been reprinted recently in Image's Popgun vol. 1 from last year. And I only wish I knew Allred personally and his opinions on sharing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	schmevil 2009-04-29 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	I've conferred with the other mods, and particularly because it's been republished recently, we wouldn't be comfortable with hosting the whole story. I wish I knew Image's stance on scans. sigh (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	kingrockwell 2009-04-29 05:08 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I figured that'd be the part to kill it. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tavella 2009-04-28 10:22 am UTC (link)
	The LJ feed should be good now, even without the div cuts, now that it has been set to summary. It now just gives a paragraph and then a fakecut to insanejournal for the rest. No more 30 image spew on the friends list. Thanks again for resetting it! (Reply to this)