We had a very efficient and funny campaign to inform the general public that screenshots are not memes. However, people keep posting screenshots in this community. I propose that we establish a rule banning screenshots. Maybe there is a dedicated community or screenshots enthusiasts could create one. Of course if this proposal is widely opposed, I will withdraw it and go hide in a cave, never to be heard again. Also, cartoons are not memes either but this is a battle for another day.

Edit: added brackets to the title for clarity

    • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      3·
      3 years ago

      Thanks for the info and the proposal. I see communities get organized and talk to each other. I gives hope for a better fediverse

  • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
    12·
    3 years ago

    I just downvote any uncropped screenshot and ignore the content at this point. Have people really gotten too stupid to crop?

    • macniel@feddit.deEnglish
      81·
      3 years ago

      We are in the social media age… yes, people really gotten too stupid for those kinds of things. Same with taking photos of screens instead of making a screenshot.

      • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        3 years ago

        I can at least understand taking photos of the screen because console manufacturers go out of their way to make it difficult to take a screenshot and get it on your phone.

        But cropping literally takes 10 seconds. Or 5 minutes if you’re doing it for the first time and don’t have an app that can crop.

        • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          3 years ago

          You dont need an app. Both Apple’s iPhones and Samsung’s Galaxy Phones have built in photo editor. Not sure about other brands.

          • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
            11·
            3 years ago

            There are stock apps, but they are usually incredibly bloated. Samsungs’ wants you to log in to use it and last time I checked, it literally put ads in between your images.

            • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              3·
              3 years ago

              Um, no I don’t have any ads. Typically you get ads if you have a low end device or if it’s from a carrier, the carrier will put bloat. But I got my Galaxy S23 unlocked from BestBuy and I don’t have any ads or carrier stuff, and the Samsung bloat isn’t even that bad, most of them can be uninstalled. The photo editor is literally within the gallery app, you just tap the little pen icon that shows up when you tap on an image. I don’t know why you have ads or require a Samsung account, neither apply to me.

              • nottheengineer@feddit.deEnglish
                11·
                3 years ago

                It was an unlocked samsung phone as well, an S9 to be specific. All the bloat on there is from samsung themselves and it frequently sent samsung ads as notifications (which couldn’t be disabled) and had a constant notification telling the user to sign into their samsung account (which couldn’t be dismissed or disabled).

                The gallery app had ads between the images, that’s what I meant.

                If that isn’t bad bloat, I don’t know what is.

                • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  3·
                  3 years ago

                  Um… I think you might have malware on your phone. I’ve literally never seen an actual ad inside a default gallery app in any smartphone I ever had, including budget phones. I did a search on Galaxy S9 and anything about ads but all I could find is people finding out their phone is infected from malware after being advised to scan their phone by commenters. Can you post an image of the ad?

                  Also you might wanna run a malware scan. Malwarebytes is said to be reputable.

                  Edit: Do you used pirated apps? No judgement, just curious. Pirated apps are one of the common ways to get infected.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.deEnglish
    6·
    3 years ago

    This sub needs more mods, I don’t want to make this decision by myself. At the moment it seems like not everyone agrees with you.

  • Chiwiu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

    Take the chance now to stablish rules for screenshots AND not allowing comics at the same time (I understand that it’s what you meant by “cartoons”, right?)

    There is a community already for the latter here: !comics@lemmy.ml and if people like screenshots so much they can already create their own, as you said (def wont be joining that one myself 😅)

  • Gutotito@kbin.social
    0·
    3 years ago

    No need to hide in a cave, bro, but screenshots-of-screenshots, at least as far as I’ve seen lately, are already a part of “the culture.” There’s no winning this war; you can only hope to survive it.

    • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.worksOP
      0·
      3 years ago

      I beg to disagree. Lemmy is new, doesn’t have to cave to “the culture” that is now prevalent on reddit. Memes are created by users. They are OC. Screenshots are reposts by design. I was hoping Lemmy would be a better place than what reddit had become

      • Hexagon@feddit.it
        028·
        3 years ago

        I already see people proudly making screenshots of screenshots, on purpose. The Streisand Effect took over already.