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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!
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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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    • 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]
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    • 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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Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.

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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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

Men are male

Women are female

Whoever complicated things by somehow making a perfectly normal term offensive is a giant asshole

P.S. but seriously, don't just assume everyone using the word "female" and its derivatives is a jerk. People may not be aware of this odd shitstorm, and just use the word in its completely literal meaning, wishing no offence.

P.P.S. I stand corrected by the commenter below who mentioned terms "male" and "female" are related to AGAB, not gender. In terms of trans individuals and those whose gender is unknown, it makes sense to avoid their misuse.

P.P.P.S. Apparently, that too is debatable. I start to see why it makes sense to drop the words altogether, because it's going to fire wrong either way.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

The issue as I understand it is that the words "male" and "female" are adjectives, and when they're used as nouns it can sound dehumanizing.

A vet or a farmer might talk about their livestock as "males and females," but people referring to other people that way is not only incorrect usage, but it's also only ever really used that way by men discussing women as if they're sex objects.

"A female therapist/doctor/lawyer/relative" = βœ…πŸ‘

"That female over there" = βŒπŸ‘Ž

[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yah I got schooled about the usage on a women's page on Reddit a few years ago. Being a woman and female I didn't know that I had been using the term female wrong for 40 years prior to that.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah this place is a little better than reddit in terms of nuance and charitable interpretations, but we still have our share of toxic assholes who will deliberately misconstrue anything you say so they can shame you and put you down just to feel smug/superior.

Sometimes it's not easy to determine what to ignore and what to learn from, but yeah using "female" as a noun is definitely a big no-no these days, even offline.

And honestly, increasingly I've started to notice it expanding to include using the term correctly as an adjective, which is annoying, but I've had to adjust my language accordingly. Now I say things like "a woman doctor" even though it's incorrect and sounds awkward, because I'm afraid to say "a female doctor," lest I be shunned.

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[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I feel like the only time I referred to males and female were regarding things like census designations, medical terminology.

Outside of that it's bros and bitches.

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[–] it_depends_man@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That's not a very jolly roger :(

They're flying the sad chad

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