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May 1st, 2009
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Welcome to Scans Daily's official Suggestion Box. If you've got a question, concern or suggestion about Scans Daily, here's where you can post it.

This post will be linked to in our profile, and checked regularly by the mods. Comments won't be screened, so you can suggest amongst yourselves.

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From:[info]volksjager
Date:May 1st, 2009 04:42 pm (UTC)
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Try to get people to use a lower dpi when they scan. For most 200 works just fine. Some people are using 600 and more and its a pain to open if there are many pages :)
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From:[info]maslego
Date:May 1st, 2009 05:19 pm (UTC)
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I suggest we try and get things back to the way they were back on livejournal, (i.e no page limit thingy)
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From:[info]gargoylekitty
Date:May 1st, 2009 05:43 pm (UTC)
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? There was always pretty much some kind of page limit.
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From:[info]octopussoir
Date:May 1st, 2009 05:36 pm (UTC)
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A warning tag for potential therapy enducing content.
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From:[info]mysteryfan
Date:May 1st, 2009 06:13 pm (UTC)
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Heh.

Seconded.
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From:[info]cainofdreaming
Date:May 1st, 2009 06:22 pm (UTC)
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Warning: Japan, then?
From:[info]pindrops
Date:May 2nd, 2009 04:43 pm (UTC)
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Oh, it's not going to stop me from clicking, but fourthed
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From:[info]peur_evol
Date:May 1st, 2009 05:53 pm (UTC)

Variety

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How do we get more variety here?
I have no idea...more members?

It just seems like we're always looking at the same titles and characters over and over and over and over....

I seem to remember S_D#1 being more varied and full of surprises....
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From:[info]foxhack
Date:May 1st, 2009 07:17 pm (UTC)

Re: Variety

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We were much bigger back on LJ. We had a lot more people coming and going.

Here, not so much. :(
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From:[info]sandoz_iscariot
Date:May 1st, 2009 09:36 pm (UTC)

Re: Variety

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What kind of variety would you like to see?
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From:[info]mullon
Date:May 1st, 2009 06:00 pm (UTC)
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Is there a way to put the "Leave a comment" button at the bottom of the page?
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From:[info]schmevil
Date:May 1st, 2009 06:01 pm (UTC)
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Not without changing the layout, or fiddling with CSS. We're planning a layout contest sometime in the future, so. Yeah. That'll go on the list.
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From:[info]filbypott
Date:May 1st, 2009 06:33 pm (UTC)
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Is there some way we can get the list of tags in one place to make searching easier? The new "char/creator/title/event: codename/real name/mother's maiden name" tag format can make tags a little tough to remember.
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From:[info]unknownscribler
Date:May 2nd, 2009 01:27 pm (UTC)
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Can we get rid of the abovementioned tag format? It's hideous.
From:[info]besamim
Date:May 1st, 2009 11:41 pm (UTC)
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What follows is more of a "community philosophy/mission statement" suggestion than a hard-and-fast rule or feature suggestion.

I would like to see much less knee-jerk negativity in scans_daily. Creator-bashing, publisher-bashing, title-bashing, character-bashing: there was getting to be far too much of this in the old community and it seems to be creeping up here again.

It is not necessary to type "whoreswhoreswhores" every time a writer's name is mentioned. It is not necessary to wish death upon an editor, writer or artist, as opposed to stating in a civil manner what it is about their work you object to. It is not necessary to post long rants about how you'll "never read anything by [title/author/publisher] again" and to curse [author/publisher] for "ruining [a character/your childhood memories]".

I would like to see scans_daily become more of a constructive celebration of comics, rather than a forum to reflexively (and viciously) bash comics one hates. I am emphatically NOT saying there should be no criticism whatsoever of comics. What I am saying is that I'd like to see the focus be on what we love about comics, or how we think comics could be better, not what we hate about them.

And I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that people who are incapable of, or unwilling to, contribute to a positive and constructive discussion about comics, and who can only express anger and bitterness about the medium or works therein...should be gently encouraged to find another community.
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From:[info]ceru
Date:May 2nd, 2009 09:25 am (UTC)
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Much love to the icon.

I'm somewhat ambivalent about people being discouraged from expressing their negative feelings very strongly here. Too much hating and complaining can turn a place sour, but sharing your strong feelings, both positive and negative, are an important part of reacting to art--but I wholly agree with this part of the statement: "I would like to see scans_daily become more of a constructive celebration of comics."

I guess I just see some bitching as being constructive, in a roundabout sort of way. This isn't a concrit community for creators--it's a social space for readers.

It would be nice, I suppose, if, when expressing intense dislike of a work or a creator, people were encouraged to lean on the side of articulating what makes them feel that way.
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From:[info]benicio127
Date:May 2nd, 2009 02:47 pm (UTC)
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I've been really enjoying the bat/cat week(s) we've been having. I know there was a Clois week as well. I always enjoyed these theme weeks and hope we can have more, I think it encourages more people to participate.

But also really enjoyed that every once in awhile we'd see a thought provoking essay on old S_D. We might agree/disagree, but there was discussion.
I am really really liking that there's been so much more discussion on noscans. However, is it possible to write an essay, post it on noscans and link to this site, rather than describe a scenario? (Take frex the post I did at noscans about the Mad Love GN).
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From:[info]proteus_lives
Date:May 2nd, 2009 10:30 pm (UTC)

More Cowbell!

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Theme weeks and scan-off-style duel are fun. Friendly dialogue and nerd-battles. I got into one a few days ago and it was fun and I got into the digging through a longbox and going, "Oh yeah? check this out."


P.S.
Seriously, I got a fever and the only cure is more cowbell!
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From:[info]arbre_rieur
Date:May 8th, 2009 04:00 am (UTC)
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What if a work is incredibly short, like one, two, or three pages? Does the one third rule still apply?

Also, I'm not clear on what the rules for anthologies are. I thought it was the anthology as a whole that counted as one work for the purposes of the one-third rule because I keep seeing short stories being put up in full here and there, but apparently I'm wrong?
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From:[info]foxhack
Date:May 25th, 2009 12:28 pm (UTC)
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Could we have a "topic: videogames" tag or something similar? I ask because there's been a few posts which deal with video games in general, either as ads (this) or with webcomics, so on and so forth. I'm not sure if "theme" would fit.
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From:[info]unknownscribler
Date:June 3rd, 2009 09:49 am (UTC)
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The "legal requirement" should be changed to posts requiring at least 1 comic related piece of art. The current wording is stupidly restrictive.
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From:[info]04nbod
Date:June 19th, 2009 09:13 am (UTC)
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I need a clarification about the posting of co features. They are 8 pages and it doesn't work out in 3rds. Do we round up to 3 pages per back up.
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From:[info]galateus
Date:August 12th, 2009 07:51 am (UTC)
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The
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From:[info]scottyquick
Date:August 19th, 2009 02:29 am (UTC)
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Is there any chance of changing the tagging system to the way it was on Old Scans Daily?
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