DEBATE GIF Thread discussion

@bobbibob I watched for a while... This is a topic "Self-made GIFs only". Among "your" gifs there are mine from a years ago.
Some have my marks from back then... And it doesn't really matter if they are mine or someone else's.

I saw a member of another forum sharing gifs that weren't his, that were from members of this forum, and you seem to be either him or you're taking what he's sharing.
I appreciate the great contribution of your posts, but self-made and self-copy-paste are not the same thing.
I don't want you to think anything wrong, but I know about my posts, and also about the posts of some of the regular participants in this topic. If the topic changes its name and purpose, then that's fine. But as far as I know, duplication never is.

 

@Spiderswims explained.

Check out his post from a few hours ago...

yesterday

There are a bunch of posts like this. The essence of the topic is a self-made gif and I don't understand why this is not respected.
Sorry, but this has to stop immediately.

 

BUSTED!

 

now that the thread was split I feel more free to ad my two cents...

as a moderator on several boards I've noticed how members (everywhere) tend to be lazy on the brain power and most tend to mix "self made" (by oneself) and "self made(by someone) then web found" into "this is where you share the GIFs"

the staff created that thread to unclog the sections of the many GIFs that slowed down the threads but going further as checking all the posts for duplicates (or "borrowed") GIFs on top of checking for banned content is a huge lot of overwork ... that's why the report a problem thread was created

 

I always assumed we were on the honour system, but if people are just copying other people's efforts then call them out. I can't remember if the lounge has a "found" gif thread or something similar.

 

That's why we used to tag your pieces.

 

I would like to apologise for posting any GIFS created by others, I do create my own but have also use other people's that I have found else where. Personally I do not have an issue with people using my posts elsewhere but I realise this is an issue for others and I will respect that and not do it again, if allowed to post on the gif forum it will be all my own work.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused.

 

I don't think you understand the point. Neither I nor anyone else is asking you not to post on the forum.

Simply, just like someone writing something in another thread that has nothing to do with the topic, this "it's mine, but not quite..." post misses the point of the thread. And "those" others are not others, we are members of this forum as you.
The fact that someone shares content from here on other forums cannot be an excuse. It's not just you, we're all exposed to it. and what's most pointless is that there are members here who don't follow what's being posted, so they repost from those places that are full of our content back, i.e. here.
The most important thing is that that someone is there, and we are here. And from my experience, there is more mutual respect here than anywhere else.

Any new content is welcome.

 

All taken on board trepka, I will do better.

Currently I cannot post in the GIFS thread, hopefully this can change I have some new content that needs a home

 

Adding my 2 cents, I don't really mind unless it's blatant theft, like going out of your way to say "I made this" while you take something from elsewhere, which it doesn't seem like was what happened in the main case which led to this thread. Mistakes happen, it wasn't done with malice as far as anyone can tell, so hopefully there won't be hard feelings from anyone.

I make GIFs BTW, but they're just for me cause I am an amateur with minimal tools lol. Maybe one day I'll share some from my external hard drive archive.

 

Just do that, it will be easier

 

I would suggest something else when the discussion about gifs is already open.

We should consider limiting the size of gifs on external image hosts. I noticed earlier that some gifs are unusually large compared to the size of the video (which is usually both longer and higher resolution)
Not everyone has access to either high-speed or unlimited internet, and this can expose them to some unplanned expenses.
Or that it must be indicated that the gif is larger than some specified limit.

Think about this.