There's nothing to differ about, I stated: "If you cannot contact the original artist, then its ok for you to post here because we may be able to help identify the artist or help find their contact info"
But like if for example someone posts "OMG!!1 look goldenwolf art thefter!" and only provide the stolen image, but know who the artist is. They need to e-mail GoldenWolf about it FIRST instead of posting it to this community.
If it was your own work, since you already know about it, you can take the right steps to prevent it from happening again. Its not nessicary to post it here if you already know about it, because this community is not ment for flaming other artists. Which is sure to happen if you post about it in such a public outlet as this. Report it to the place you found it, and try to e-mail them personally to get it taken down.
This is a community ment for warning against bad commissioners who don't pay, not bad artists. There was another community recently shut down because of so many art theft reports where people got out of control and began hounding the "art theivers" and the LJ staff saw that as harassment. I think we should try to avoid that in this community, and just be respectful to everyone. Even if you've had a bad experience with them (commissioning you or copying your art).
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But like if for example someone posts "OMG!!1 look goldenwolf art thefter!" and only provide the stolen image, but know who the artist is. They need to e-mail GoldenWolf about it FIRST instead of posting it to this community.
If it was your own work, since you already know about it, you can take the right steps to prevent it from happening again. Its not nessicary to post it here if you already know about it, because this community is not ment for flaming other artists. Which is sure to happen if you post about it in such a public outlet as this. Report it to the place you found it, and try to e-mail them personally to get it taken down.
This is a community ment for warning against bad commissioners who don't pay, not bad artists. There was another community recently shut down because of so many art theft reports where people got out of control and began hounding the "art theivers" and the LJ staff saw that as harassment. I think we should try to avoid that in this community, and just be respectful to everyone. Even if you've had a bad experience with them (commissioning you or copying your art).