At 2/8/11 01:36 PM, TomFulp wrote:
I've been deleting hentai galleries as they come up - you can email me with links if you have some. There are hentai quiz games that have still gotten a pass, but they will be easier to round up after the redesign launches, at which point they might get liquidated due to the source of their images.
I absolutely agree on deleting the hentai galleries that are clearly in violation of the Portal submit rules "non-interactive/porn slideshow", however hentai quiz games with art that the user did not create themselves (that is, roughly ALL of the H-quizzes on the site) should be kept and protected under a grandfather clause of sorts.
As far as I know, there was no such rule in place preventing users from submitting these games before the redesign, so Flash Hentai Quiz games featuring non-original art that passed before the current design should be spared judgment. However, those such submissions that were passed after the current design hit should be placed under review, although there is nothing in the current Portal submit FAQs that says non-original art is disallowed as of this current design.
I don't count the "someone else's work" or "rip another author's art" as 'saying so', as they apply to things unrelated to these kinds of submissions.
Some of the more popular submissions on the Portal would be missing if "featuring non-original art" became the sole reason for its removal. Sprite movies run a similar dilemma, but typically pass and are also very popular amongst Portal-goers - should these also undergo a similar process?
Some of the Hentai quiz games that contain full video sequences may be liable for liquidation, as the copyright stuff is in a bit of a grey area, so to say. If there was a way for me to help out in these cases of indecision and post-judgment judgment, I'd be more than willing to lend a hand in the matters.
At 2/8/11 10:25 PM, phrozonfire wrote:
Not sure about this stuff. It's not a quiz, but he didn't make the content, just the rpg base.
Well, if someone made a base to build a game on, I think it still counts as his own work. Unless the content in question is already copyrighted by another publisher or author, I honestly doubt that it can be said his submissions are doing something that goes against the rules - again, as is the case with sprite movies. If the author properly cites sources or gives the artists that created the content originally credit, then they are clear of any wrong-doing unless an entire work is blatantly stolen with little regard for who made it originally (like when someone tries to pass a stolen Flash through the Portal or something, for example).
AMVs constantly get trashed on video sites for violating song and video copyrights, but because those you mentioned were submitted before the current design, I feel they should be kept as no such rules preventing these types of submissions were in place when they passed.
At 2/9/11 01:48 AM, hentaicook wrote:
Um, I'm just skimming this thread, but am I correct in assuming you guys are deleting all those hentai galleries because they don't have original content? Does this mean all of the "Meet and Fuck" games also, because they don't have original content??
I think those are a special case. They feature non-original art (for the most part), but are otherwise an original work in and of themselves. The designer took efforts to animate and program sequences that would not be available from a mere image or CG set alone. The Clock Crew occasionally did similar things, but in a much cruder fashion that typically involved placing a strobing circle over a person's mouth in a photograph to mimic talking. The MnF games typically feature a mix of fully-animated (but traced) vector graphics and non-original art manipulated in Flash to appear to be animated. As such, these games and their author are not doing anything wrong.
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While we're on the subject, I think this guy deserves some attention.
All of these submissions are just ripped out of some video and sequenced in buttons - essentially a video slideshow with extremely limited interactivity. As a newly appointed genre mod, I wish these to be promptly removed for just being straight-up porn with no other redeeming value and possibly violating Portal submit rule of "submit copyrighted video clips that you did not make".
As for actual genre modding, I did part of the Defense games when I was icon modding that collection. I shall do the same for the rest of the collections I icon mod on, though I will not report them in this thread like I do in the Icon Mod crew.
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