@Chaosesqueteam: My legal team has reviewed your offer and given it great consideration. They have advised me the safest course of action is to ban you for repeatedly breaking the rules, ignoring warnings, and disregarding requests for corrective action. I'm being told this will minimize my liability in the upcoming legal apocalypse that is inevitably descending upon my head. After weeks of lost sleep and much wringing of hands, I have decided to take their advice.
I am very much for the idea of OGA being politically neutral, even on things concerning the gaming community like GamerGate et al.
I have been trying to be gentle with political submissions, but I don't know if it's as gentle/harsh as I should be. I have had success with requesting that the submitter "tone down" the political aspects of the comments, title, and description. I've tried to avoid asking for the removal of political aspects of the artwork itself, though. I don't know if that's best or not.
I don't know if on "dorothea the cat lady" I was being too sensitive to the political stuff, but it seemed like it was very much in the same vein as these:
@bart: I'm a fan of how you and other admins seem to really go the extra mile to avoid banning someone. After all, I'm ashamed to admit, I've committed a reasonably-bannable offense, but you guys let me stay. :) Even with some of the more unreasonable and argumentative people I've only had to lock or unpublish a work without banning the submitter. (Other than obvious spammers, I've only ever banned MikeeUSA, and I still feel bad about it even though everyone else on the internet has already banned him.)
As for how to accomplish the best balance of free speech and political agnosticism, I can't comment. I'm still looking for guidance on how I should be handling those situations, so I'm on board with whatever is decided and will adjust my administrative style to match.
That makes a lot of sense. I'm ready to assist in whatever way I can. If I need to manually de-corrupt a thousand nodes, I'm willing.
I've noticed the site has trouble handling some extended ANSI characters sometimes. Is it possible the trouble-nodes contain special characters that are freaking out the cron job? I've used some Japanese kanji in several of my submissions, so I might actually be (one of) the culprits. :(
Ah. Yes. As the author of such artwork, you are free to release the artwork under any number of licenses you want. GPL over there, CC0 over here.
CC0 would be sufficient to cover all future bases. People coming here can use your CC0 art in a GPL project, a CC-BY-SA project, or a closed source commercial project. :)
Groovy. Thank you.
Ooh, nice! and the superpowers game dev kit is open source and looks easy to use, too!
Ok. He is banned. Left all comments and submissions (none) in place. Just blocked the account.
@Chaosesqueteam: My legal team has reviewed your offer and given it great consideration. They have advised me the safest course of action is to ban you for repeatedly breaking the rules, ignoring warnings, and disregarding requests for corrective action. I'm being told this will minimize my liability in the upcoming legal apocalypse that is inevitably descending upon my head. After weeks of lost sleep and much wringing of hands, I have decided to take their advice.
Yay!
Thanks. This is good to know. :)
I am very much for the idea of OGA being politically neutral, even on things concerning the gaming community like GamerGate et al.
I have been trying to be gentle with political submissions, but I don't know if it's as gentle/harsh as I should be. I have had success with requesting that the submitter "tone down" the political aspects of the comments, title, and description. I've tried to avoid asking for the removal of political aspects of the artwork itself, though. I don't know if that's best or not.
Some examples:
http://opengameart.org/content/keyboard-jam-session-keyboardjamsession20... (I know, MikeeUSA has been banned, but it was for subsequent egregious offenses, not this one)
http://opengameart.org/content/hand-drawn-sprite-dorothea-the-cat-lady#c... (currently still marked as having licensing issues, but more because of the source of the image on the T-Shirt than because of any latent political content)
I don't know if on "dorothea the cat lady" I was being too sensitive to the political stuff, but it seemed like it was very much in the same vein as these:
@bart: I'm a fan of how you and other admins seem to really go the extra mile to avoid banning someone. After all, I'm ashamed to admit, I've committed a reasonably-bannable offense, but you guys let me stay. :) Even with some of the more unreasonable and argumentative people I've only had to lock or unpublish a work without banning the submitter. (Other than obvious spammers, I've only ever banned MikeeUSA, and I still feel bad about it even though everyone else on the internet has already banned him.)
As for how to accomplish the best balance of free speech and political agnosticism, I can't comment. I'm still looking for guidance on how I should be handling those situations, so I'm on board with whatever is decided and will adjust my administrative style to match.
I'll try to find any new submissions with the tags "Challenge" and "Reborn" but linking to your challenge entry here on this thread is recommended.
That makes a lot of sense. I'm ready to assist in whatever way I can. If I need to manually de-corrupt a thousand nodes, I'm willing.
I've noticed the site has trouble handling some extended ANSI characters sometimes. Is it possible the trouble-nodes contain special characters that are freaking out the cron job? I've used some Japanese kanji in several of my submissions, so I might actually be (one of) the culprits. :(
Ah. Yes. As the author of such artwork, you are free to release the artwork under any number of licenses you want. GPL over there, CC0 over here.
CC0 would be sufficient to cover all future bases. People coming here can use your CC0 art in a GPL project, a CC-BY-SA project, or a closed source commercial project. :)
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