AI Art & Attribution

Hey all, we're bumping this bulletin as this rule change is now in effect across the site. New characters applying for approval and returning characters looking to reactivate will be denied if there isn't credit for all artwork and photographs used on the profile, including avatars and profile banners. A legible signature on an image is sufficient credit for that image. We will accept a website credit or "photographer unknown, from Google" or something to that effect for photographs if you are unable to track down the photographer, but please avoid using any photographs that are indicated as All Rights Reserved.

Taking player feedback into account, we have decided to handle active accounts that are missing credits by deactivating the account instead of issuing a strike. We will send a courtesy PM for the first few months of enforcing this, but will move to just deactivating in the future. We hope this finds the balance between the need to enforce this rule and not being heavyhanded about doing so.

To go along with this bump, we are doing a skin drive so we can update our skins with credited photography and have added a Skin Banner Photography section to our Credits appendix which will be updated once we have a new batch of credited skins to use!