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PSA to all NEW members / posters
mrwaffles
Member, Leader of Men, Kickstarter, Alpha One
Every 6 months AOC gets on the radar / news and the forums get a pretty big population spike. I call it a spike and not growth because 90% of the spike leaves shortly after a post or two. So To all new people:
[TO ALL NEW MEMBERS AND POSTERS]
Welcome to AOC. I know you saw a video that gots you all hyped but take a look around before you start asking for this game to be X or not be Y. The community will listen to your opinion but first use the search box in the top right of the screen and I bet there is already a post on what you're trying to share. Read through the forum and see if your questions get answered, but please do your due diligence. The community is not here to talk you off the cliff of "supporting" this MMO.
[TO ALL THE VETERANS]
Weather the storm and keep weeding through the trolls, griefers, and instigaters. Because there are still some new people that will be your new comrades for the remaining wait (who knows they might be new guildys). It's just that time where this happens and the trolls descend but if this keeps happening that just means the project is worth the attention.
@LieutenantToast feel free to delete/lock this post if you feel it will just trigger more people and do more harm then good.
[TO ALL NEW MEMBERS AND POSTERS]
Welcome to AOC. I know you saw a video that gots you all hyped but take a look around before you start asking for this game to be X or not be Y. The community will listen to your opinion but first use the search box in the top right of the screen and I bet there is already a post on what you're trying to share. Read through the forum and see if your questions get answered, but please do your due diligence. The community is not here to talk you off the cliff of "supporting" this MMO.
[TO ALL THE VETERANS]
Weather the storm and keep weeding through the trolls, griefers, and instigaters. Because there are still some new people that will be your new comrades for the remaining wait (who knows they might be new guildys). It's just that time where this happens and the trolls descend but if this keeps happening that just means the project is worth the attention.
@LieutenantToast feel free to delete/lock this post if you feel it will just trigger more people and do more harm then good.
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Thank you.
Right on and welcome to the community. I can tell you're going to stick around. One of the first things you did was update your profile image lol. It's the bare minimum but you'd be surprised how little to no new member does it.
That is because they said you have to "own" the image and most people don't "own" an avatar image they want. Also tons of people are in violation of the rule...I have seen famous pictures being used aleady. The account Alizee using a picture of her from like 15 years ago comes to mind unless you think she is really playing using her own name and a photo from when she was a teen...
I'm also seeing LOTR pics and famous cartoons...if you didn't take it, draw it, or buy the rights, then you don't own the image.
(At least burning everything and starting again fits the whole “phoenix” symbolism.)
I saw Alizee and recalled Moi Lolita - Played Moi Lolita and appreciated the cultural injection. lol
Not in the posted rules. In fact I’ve never seen that rule on any message board and I’ve posted to dozens (hundreds?) of them, so it would be a really bizarre rule.
When you click to set the image it literally pops up "By uploading a file you certify that you have the right to distribute this picture and that it does not violate the Terms of Service."
Try reading as half the avatar images are things people do not have the right to distribute or own the image as that would also give them the distrubution rights
Fair use copyright lets you
we still need our badges for the old forums
If images have been placed in the public domain by the creator or rights holder...then yes...if joe bob copies or screen shots or saves a copywrited image and puts it in a public domain then no as only someone with those rights can release those rights by putting it in the public domain. Most likely 99.999% of images in the public domain that are well known or famous were not put there by a person with the authority to release the rights making them not public domain depsite a copy of them being posted there.
I want this pinned to the forums, please Mods