OnChainArt Rules Update

in OnChainArt4 years ago (edited)

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What's up everyone, @midlet here with a few announcements and updates regarding OCA. So first off the community is growing well and there's a ton of amazing artwork being posted here day in and day out which I love to see.

I feel confident at this point that if you're a good artist, you can come to Hive and you won't be overlooked or have that feeling a lot of us old timers had when we got started where basically your first month or so was you talking to no one and there being no relationship between the quality of your work and the rewards you'd receive. It's a new day and I think this place is growing into something that can be great and add a lot of value to Hive.

That said, this Community is like a piece of artwork for me. It's something I'm always thinking about how to improve and how to polish it to make it even better.

One of the core philosophies I had in mind when creating OCA was that Communities need to be very niche and specific to be successful. I think even having a community just for "art" is too broad, but at the time I created OCA there weren't any other art Communities(I made it before Communities were even announced, during the beta) so I left things pretty open. Things have evolved a bit more and I want to further craft this community into what I ultimately had in mind. So I'll be restricting a few types of content in OCA from this point forward and updating the rules for posting here.

Some of this is based on keeping the focus of this community narrow and some are to curb what I see as abuse.

Rule addendums

  • No Photography

If you use photography as a source for creating artwork, that's still fine. A good example of this is the work of the amazing @barbarabezina

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but if the work you're showcasing is JUST photography, then it's a better fit for the Photography Community admined by one of the Mods here in OCA @kommienezuspadt.

Photography posts in OCA will be muted from this point on.

  • No Filters or AI Artwork

Again, there is nothing wrong with this sort of work, but I don't think it's a good fit for OCA and there is a Community where I think it's a better fit at this point. Alien Art Hive is a great Community Admin'ed by the amazing @juliakponsford and I think that sort of work is a great fit for that Community.

The whole point of Communities is to get people to the content they want to see faster, and connect people interested in the same type of stuff. Supporting these communities is a net positive for Hive.

I'm still allowing crafts even though I don't really think that's a great fit either, but it's because as far as I know there is no crafts Community yet. At least not one that is well curated, but for the record I think if you're really into crafts, making a Community is a huge opportunity. The reality is that success on Hive is in large part due to having a positive reputation. I don't mean the score, I mean people know you as someone working to better Hive and creating real value. Obviously there are a lot of people into crafts, so if that's your thing, I'd say take the leap and own that Community.

  • Sharing Reference if your art is based on a single reference.

Some of you already do this, but I'd been hesitant to make it a rule because it's not really the norm on other platforms and when new users come here I didn't want to throw a bunch of restrictions at them while I'm trying to get them to post. But over time I've come to the other side of this debate and I think it just provides needed clarity for exactly what it is you're showcasing. So the rule will be to provide a link to the original source photo. The photo does not need to be included in your post, just a link to it, but if you want to share the photo as part of your post of course you can do that too. The exception to this rule is if you own the photo reference, or have purchased the rights to them. An example of this would be if you buy a photo reference pack. Since you bought the photos, they don't exist online and since they are a for profit product it wouldn't make sense to post them here.

Keep in mind this is for PHOTO references and that studies of drawings and paintings are still not allowed in OCA.

Cracking Down on Abuse

So now for the not so fun part. It's not rampant, but I've seen more instances lately of work that is not a drawing or painting trying to be passed off as a drawing or painting. It's the less legit side of using filters and AI. I think these are powerful tools and can be used to make amazing work, but they can also be used to deceive people into thinking someone is doing one thing when they're doing another. HiveWatchers and HiveKeepers are constantly patrolling the streets of OCA. I don't like getting DM's from them. Do me a favor and don't be a dick. If you can't draw or paint or sculpt, or 3D model, or something along those lines, this is not the community for you. As it's said since the very beginning. "OCA is a Community for serious artists". Look, I'm not naive, I know that a lot of rewards are flowing through here and that's going to bring with it people looking to capitalize, but from this point on these offenses are going to be one strike and you're out. If you do this sort of thing even once, I find it hard to believe that you're going to ever add any value here. You'll also be reported to HiveWatchers and HiveKeepers so it's really not worth it if you want to continue as a part of this community.

Alright, that's about it. I'd appreciate it if you all see someone breaking the rules and you think it's probably not malicious, kindly let them know so they can avoid any issues. Keep being awesome OCArtists!

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Nice, this is what communities need to do. I follow OCA, and a lot of other communities, and I, as a consumer, do appreciate the community standards being upheld. Prior to communities I would cruise the tags, but that was pretty much a waste of time, so much tag abuse was going on. You could not even find new users in the tags for that type of search ( #introduceyourself ).

Greetings!
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@tipu curate

Good on you for keeping things curated, personally I don't even mind if people use filters artistically but I recently had someone try to pass one off as a drawing 🤣👎

Otherwise I haven't encountered too much outright abuse but it's definitely going to increase as we gain more users.

@onchainart tengo una duda aún, soy hablante de español y tuve que traducir el post para entenderlo... (Sin filtros ni ilustraciones de IA) que quiere decir IA? No lo entiendo. Entonces las ilustraciones digitales ya sean Photoshop o Illustrator, no pueden optar a ser curadas? Y de ser así, mi contenido digital puede ser curado por la comunidad que proponen, es decir, la de @juliakponsford

 4 years ago  Reveal Comment

I'm talking about my own art community, not hive in general, I haven't encountered nearly as much abuse as I expected, just the odd post here and there

Mostly here to curate a little bit and to look at cool artworks in general. Manually sifting through stuff is the way for me to go. Good to have those measures, though.

They are necessary, indeed.

I think you could have restricted to what you wanted from the outset but you definitely can now there's at least three art communities :)

Current goal is to let things happen organically.

This seems like a good starting point, thanks @midlet!

 4 years ago (edited) 

These all seem very reasonable. I like the idea of someone creating a craft community. There are so many people on Hive that this would suit much better.
When there are more ephemeral artists in the hive I will be launching a community for this also but for now I think OnChainart is the best fit for my work.

No rush, your work is phenomenal and will always be welcome here :)

Thanks for updating the rules. I am totally new to the hive blockchain and I joined primarily because of this community. I was tempted to post my introductory article through this community but then, I read the rules and I became skeptical. Perhaps you want to go through my intro post and see if my kind of art fits into this community?

Feel free to post here @kunle-art :)

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What is AI Artwork? no las conozco.

@onchainart I still have a question, I am a Spanish speaker and I had to translate the post to understand it ... (No filters or IA illustrations) What does IA mean? I do not get it. So digital illustrations, whether Photoshop or Illustrator, are not eligible to be cured?

Good afternoon! I have a couple of questions about the content that is allowed to be published in this community:

Is it allowed to share DIY projects?

I know that "DIY" is a very broad topic, but I mean unconventional painting, fine embroidery, or sculpture (?)

I would like to know if my content would be allowed in this community or if it is not suitable (I do not want to bother anyone or be inconvenient publishing here without asking first) 💦

I hope you all have a beautiful day 🙏 💕

Hello,
Congratulations for the community. Can you tell us how is upvote process? seems pretty random and unrelated with the art quality.

kind regards,

Javier.

Thank you for this information! I haven't posted anything in this community, but I'd love to start putting my work here. Will you be kind and check my work? And if you have a tip for me, I'd love to hear them.

Here's the link to my latest drawing post:
https://hive.blog/hive-174578/@mamalikh13/against-the-eyes

Thank you! :)

Hello @ onchainrt / @midlet, a little late to discover the good rules they teach here, I am an art lover and I have obtained a lot of support in the little I have published here, however due to lack of knowledge I thought that making art, apart from creating , was to imitate a work done as close as possible, how wrong I was, I also did not know that studies are not allowed in OCA, well knowledge of the law does not exempt us from punishment. Well I already know the rules, thanks to this post and the warnings of my friends on hive. Thank you for creating this amazing community for serious artists.

Hi, how are you? @onchainart . I've read the community rules and I think it's an excellent opportunity for those of us who love the art of the beehive, I've already published my drawings in OCA twice and the works of the other users are wonderful, it's always great to enter here in OCA