Thanks to everybody who let me know that “Digger” was being aggregated by one of those slimy apps making money off other creator’s work. Blargh! Note sent, although their contact form apparently doesn’t allow quote marks in the message box, which meant it took about ten tries and any patience I had with the people involved vanished pretty quickly.
Jerks. I don’t object to such a thing in theory, but if you don’t ASK the creator if it’s okay, you suck. And the only reason NOT to ask is because you suspect you’re doing something wrong. Grrrr.
Update: They promised to take it down, and thanked me for my "polite" request. Since my request did not include words like "please" and did include words like "disgusted you think this is acceptable behavior," I'm wondering if they're being sarcastic or if other creators just sent them pages of obscenities.
Then they asked if I wanted to work with them in the future on something that involved getting creators revenue. Oh, sweetie. If you'd asked me FIRST, then maybe we'd be having a very different conversation, but you've already proved everything I need to know about how you do business, even before your passive-aggressive little P.S. about how it wasn't REALLY copyright infringement, because it was all from my website, really!
BATTLESHEEP (CONTINUES TO) CRUSH YOU, PUNY COMIC THIEVES!
Originally published at Tea with the Squash God. You can comment here or there.
I'd like to see that board game... "You sunk my battlesheep!"
On the other hand, BATTLESHEEP!
Another similar-but-way-different effort that I was pointed to yesterday is Just the First Frame. While this page also (like the scummy scrapers) has may webcomics represented, the difference is that he asks first and then only provides one panel, leading the viewer to click through to the originator's page. He also isn't currently ad-supported, but if he wanted to be I would be fine with that. Theie is a huge difference between the folks that are out there trying to get more webcomics more viewers, and the folks that are trying to co-opt other people's work for their own benefit.
THIS.
Yes. Send more folk to the actual artist's site!
I am so sorry you had to go though this.
It's an App. called DailyComix.
People are not linking direct to it because they really don't even want to hit it to support it in any way.
However -- Battlesheep!! WANT!!!
So I feel your pain on that one.
It's laziness and sheer penny-pinching miserliness. And in the end, it will come back to bite the miser in multiple ways.
scum and battlesheep
I am also going to put a link to this page in the "Moderators Manor" at the board where I'm on the admin/mod team. We all joke about - and the resident code geek has given us symbols of - our mod axes for cutting threads, deleting off comments, and so forth, so it will fit right in at the fluffy vortex. :)
Thank you for amusing us, and educating us as well.
Thanks also to the person who informed us of the tumblr listing of victims.
Loved the Battlesheep. For some reason it strikes me as a piece in a farm chess set, probably the castle. With a row of mail clad chickens as pawns, horses for the knights (of course) and cows (or perhaps bulls) for the bishops. And, of course, the farmer and his wife as king and queen. Don't try raiding this farm!
on another note, heading to hawai'i to visit mum. want coffee when i grab some? shall i take pictures of birds you should go visit yourself?
::::sings::: WHEN WILL I SEEEEE YOOOOOOUUUU AGAAAAAAIIIIN?????
Every artist afected should post a 'FBI Application-Takedown' picture...
You know, turn his app against him.
Yeah, I'm a bastard...