04-16-2021, 05:38 PM
I can certainly understand your position regarding attribution, especially considering your line of work. I have worked on a lot of online projects over the years, from personal websites to writing for a reality television review site to podcasts and other things and I certainly wanted to be sure I got credit for what I did. That being said, every now and then I come across something I created (like a photomanipulation I did for a visual pun contest) in a chain email that has no attribution and it really doesn't bother me (as long as someone isn't claiming it is their own). I actually found it neat that some liked it enough to pass it along.
If I'm being honest, I can be accused of this very thing here on RPGSolo in regards to the images I post with my stories. Everything I post here I double post on my personal Solo RPG Blog. There I include all the source information in the alt text of the images, an acceptable citation method from what I've researched online. I would do the same here, unfortunately, MyCode doesn't make doing that easy, if even possible. The only alternatives would either be to list the sources next to the images (which is messy) or list them at the end of the post (better, but still not ideal). So, for appearance sake I've chosen to post as is, and if any questions arise deal with them as they come up. Everything else I use, such as sourcebooks, tools, or other websites, I link to or reference in the text, sometimes probably ad nauseum.
Anyway, others might be tired of us dragging this on, so feel free to private message me if there was anything else you wanted to share on this topic.
If I'm being honest, I can be accused of this very thing here on RPGSolo in regards to the images I post with my stories. Everything I post here I double post on my personal Solo RPG Blog. There I include all the source information in the alt text of the images, an acceptable citation method from what I've researched online. I would do the same here, unfortunately, MyCode doesn't make doing that easy, if even possible. The only alternatives would either be to list the sources next to the images (which is messy) or list them at the end of the post (better, but still not ideal). So, for appearance sake I've chosen to post as is, and if any questions arise deal with them as they come up. Everything else I use, such as sourcebooks, tools, or other websites, I link to or reference in the text, sometimes probably ad nauseum.
Anyway, others might be tired of us dragging this on, so feel free to private message me if there was anything else you wanted to share on this topic.