images taken from other sites

What do I do about images taken from forums that don't include an artist reference? I mean for source.

Post it anyway. It's not necessary to know the artist, though it's always helpful to do.

I mean for mentioning the source. Do I list the site as the source?

No, don't put anything.

That's unfortunate, thanks for getting back to me on it.

salarta said: That's unfortunate

Why? We don't care about the source if it would just be "2chan thread that expired 4 minutes after posting" or "some random imageboard that has nothing to do with the original artist".

Source is meant to convey useful information, and lacking that, it should be left blank.

jxh2154 said:
Why? We don't care about the source if it would just be "2chan thread that expired 4 minutes after posting" or "some random imageboard that has nothing to do with the original artist".

Source is meant to convey useful information, and lacking that, it should be left blank.

Unfortunate from my perspective. People sometimes take time trying to find these, and I value them and the place for it. That's all.

I wasn't talking about image boards. Not mentioning image boards explicitly makes sense, and I've always put "image board" in source for those.

Salarta, the more you post the less people care about what you think.

Personally if an image came from a forum or image board I would include the link as if the source is unknown it is possible someone might ask the same question in the thread in question and get an answer. Obviouslt for 4chan this would be useless due to the short retention time, but not every imageboard has such a large userbase combined with the attention spam of a goldfish.

salarta said: Unfortunate from my perspective. People sometimes take time trying to find these, and I value them and the place for it. That's all.

I don't really have any idea what you're talking about here.

Fencedude said:
Salarta, the more you post the less people care about what you think.

Has anyone ever taken him seriously in the first place?

Jesus christ, I said something in passing, you asked for an explanation so I gave one and in return I get this. Next time I won't answer it.

Better idea. Go away.

Fencedude said:
Better idea. Go away.

No. I can be annoying (here comes some pseudo-witty comeback), I admit that, but I usually asked questions because regardless of however I feel, I wanted to make sure I was following the direction danbooru wanted to go. I'm going to stop worrying about that. It's clearly an empty effort.

jxh2154 said:
I don't really have any idea what you're talking about here.

It's more like I feel awkward just saving and posting them when I know some people at that site are like me and go searching for a few hours to find things nobody else will. Especially since I get a lot out of that place. I was approaching it from the mental perspective of "well finding these takes time and effort too, if I don't know the artist then maybe I should give some credit that way." I'm clearly not the person who found it in those cases, they are.

Of course, none of that would have been said if the topic turned out differently; I would've simply accepted the convention, complied and said nothing else of it. Why I'm explaining that, though, I don't know, because at this point I'm going to be hated no matter what my intentions are and were.

salarta said: It's more like I feel awkward just saving and posting them when I know some people at that site are like me and go searching for a few hours to find things nobody else will.

I get what you're saying, but that's still not what the source link is meant for. Everything on every imageboard was found and posted by someone else. But that's not particularly impressive or praiseworthy in and of itself.

I have nearly 12,000 uploads here, but I certainly don't care about "credit" for any of them. Credit is exclusively for the artists who worked hard to create the art (hence why we're so big on sourcing here, and why I usually won't upload something I can't source), and is the only thing we're interested in. No particular animosity against wherever it is you got them, but it's just not relevant to danbooru.

jxh2154 said:
I get what you're saying, but that's still not what the source link is meant for. Everything on every imageboard was found and posted by someone else. But that's not particularly impressive or praiseworthy in and of itself.

I have nearly 12,000 uploads here, but I certainly don't care about "credit" for any of them. Credit is exclusively for the artists who worked hard to create the art (hence why we're so big on sourcing here, and why I usually won't upload something I can't source), and is the only thing we're interested in. No particular animosity against wherever it is you got them, but it's just not relevant to danbooru.

I can understand that, hence why I didn't make a big deal out of it; it really shouldn't be. It's unfortunate that I couldn't say something to that effect, but entirely understandable.