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  1. πŸ˜‡ Be Nice!

    • Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.

  2. 🏘️ Community Standards

    • Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
    • Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
    • Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
    • Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.

  3. 🧬 Keep it Real

    • Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.

  4. πŸ“½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due

    • Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
    • Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!

  5. πŸ“‹ Post Formatting

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    • Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
    • When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
      βœ… Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
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  6. πŸ“¬ Post Frequency/SPAM

    • Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 πŸ–) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 πŸ–) will be removed.

  7. πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)

    • Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
      SΓ­, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]

  8. 🍿 Moderation

    • We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
    • When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Banned Artists

The following artists are banned from the community.

  1. Jago
  2. Stonetoss
  3. GPrime85

It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.

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When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:

Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)

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The humble legalist (jlai.lu)
submitted 1 day ago by Bad@jlai.lu to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
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[blue, shaking, in distress]
Help me!
I have been robbed!
I have lost all my belongings!

[yellow, a finger raised, looking smug]
Wrong.
Robbing is illegal.
It's impossible that you have been robbed.

[zoom on blue, who is looking blasΓ© and emotionless]

https://thebad.website/comic/the_humble_legalist

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[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 43 points 1 day ago

Comic version of

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 12 points 22 hours ago

Hypothetically, a person who believed that breaking the law was impossible, ought to also be for the abolition of police, prisons, and the criminal justice system in general, since without crime, those things would lose their justification (at least to the general public) and therefore be a major waste that locks up only people who would have to be innocent. However, it's somehow hard to imagine the sort of person that would suggest illegal things don't occur, actually taking such a position.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 3 points 18 hours ago

Assault and battery is illegal, so therefore if you kick him in the shins, that didn't happen either. It's win-win!

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Racism is illegal, therefore it doesn't exist!

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 4 points 17 hours ago

I had this argument a bunch.

"That restaurant/store/police can't do that! It's illegal!"

Like yeah. But nobody is stopping them and i'm the one forced to suffer.

[–] iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app 11 points 1 day ago

Voter discrimination based on race is illegal in the USA, but the Supreme Court recently ruled that it is up to the impacted voters to prove that racism was the cause.

Unless the Republicans are literally twirling their mustaches and saying, "Excellent, now we will do a racism," I'm not sure how that is supposed to happen.