Suggestions

[sd_admin]

First an announcement: While modbot seemed like a good idea at the time, it's proved to be unpopular with members. From now on we'll be using it only for admin posts, so that they can be edited by all members of the mod team.


We know that some members have had issues with the community and the mod team, and felt like they couldn't bring them to our attention. Here is your chance. If you've got a question, concern or suggestion about Scans Daily, here's where you can post it.

This post will be linked to in our profile, and checked regularly by the mods. Comments won't be screened, so you can suggest amongst yourselves.

Comments

[hotfoot]

If possible, I'd like to make a request. Recently a friend of mine and I were discussing female superhero costumes and how they often leave little to the imagination. I was wondering if it would be possible to encourage people to post the various "justifications" that have been delivered throughout the years across the board for these outfits in-universe, i.e., why the characters say they have those costumes.

I'm aware most of it will come down to "it's distracting" which is the go to line, but I think it would be interesting to see how it's been justified this entire time over the years, and which writers were responsible for which justifications and so forth.

Permission to make an OT-Post?

[dragonbat2006]

As you may be aware, legendary artist Norm Breyfogle has suffered a stroke. He has no insurance and his time in ICU has used up his savings. There is a fundraising campaign going on right now at youcaring.com and I was wondering whether I could post this to s_d? I can definitely post some Breyfogle panels with it.

Re: Permission to make an OT-Post?

[icon_uk]

Given the circumstances, and the fact I meant to post something similar myself, but got distracted, I believe I speak for the Mod Team when I say that I don't think there would be any problems with that.

Thank you for asking first!

[alicemacher]

I'd like to suggest a theme week which would emphasize happy, sweet, uplifting or otherwise feel-good comic scans.

The reason is that there's been a marked increase lately in posts from comics that display the most bleak, depressing, nihilistic plots and attitudes that the medium has to offer. (Not coincidentally, nearly all of these happen to be Avatar publications.)

To be clear, I support the prerogative of s_d members to post whatever they like as long as they tag it appropriately (which people have been doing), and indeed feel we wouldn't have a thriving community without that prerogative.

That said, it seems to me the "all gore, all sexual assault, all grimdark all the time" comic posts are at risk of becoming the majority of posts. And while such entries do spark lots of comments (which I suspect is why there have been so many of them lately), I worry that too much of this may discourage potential new members by giving them the wrong impression of scans_daily, and give our community a mistaken reputation, if you know what I mean.

So. To reiterate, I propose a Feel-Good Week which would invite people to post scans from comics that, well, make them feel good, as opposed to disgusted, depressed or just numbed. They don't have to be little kiddie comics; they certainly could feature conflict (in the broadest sense), have profane language, sexual situations, nudity and the like. They just have to be essentially upbeat in nature and free of gorn, sexual assault, egregious bigotry and such.

Perhaps having such a week would encourage more diversification of content year-round. After all, we're scans_daily, not scum_daily. :D

[alicemacher]

On further reflection, I think I overstated some of my arguments as to the proportion of gorn/nihilistic/rapey/etc. content in s_d lately. Also one of my friends and fellow s_d members has advised me that icon_uk has in fact done an Accentuate the Positive Week in the not-too-distant past.

I'm going to let what I wrote above stand, since we're not supposed to delete, nor overly-edit, comments in scans posts. Nevertheless, it should be taken with a grain of salt. Thank you. ^__^

Photobucket

[ironymaiden]

I have a post I want to make. The scene in question was posted a few years ago, but the scans were on photobucket and are not visible now. Is it okay to do a new post?

Since this isn't the first dead image host, perhaps it would be good to have a policy?

Dare I say, an event encouraging replacement posts of lost archives? Or encouraging longtime users to repair their old posts and link the updates?