Regarding Profile Pictures

Herro~ Recently as few may know there has been a few cases of people using profile pictures in a way they shouldn't be, using someone else's picture within the community as their picture.

tl;dr
Don't use someone elses picture without their permission~
Edit: This applies if current and old/ex players of the community.

Thank you for reading!

 

was fun while it lasted

 

Lol

 

Thanks for the thread, Chibi :--)

 

g r o s s

 

Throwback to tyler

 

Go chibi

 

Unless it's like an irl picture that someone wrote mean stuff on, I don't see why people can't steal other's profile photos. It's well within the rules and doesn't fall under disrespect at all. I could just start using your profile photo for example and it's fully within the rules. I would argue that it doesn't even fall under the common sense rule. Anyways mods aren't allowed to make rules we've had a long discussion about this awhile ago. Unless Cyp or Crew come outright and say it isn't allowed it's completely allowed.

 

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Inappropriate profile pictures. Like posting a picture of something graphic would fall under that. It doesn't talk about stealing other people's profile pictures anywhere in there.

Btw I'm not arguing that whatever Tyler did awhile ago was allowed. Stealing the profile picture for instance would be allowed, but he wrote rude things all over it before posting it and that would fall under verbal disrespect. I would be able to start using your profile picture though, and there's no rules against me using it. Even if you physically own the image I would be allowed to use it legally. At most I would just have to give credit if you created the photo.

 

For the most part, if you're using someone's IRL photo, of them even if it's photo shopped, it's still disrespectful.
I don't think it's considered for example If were to take anime picture from Larry's profile and use it. Since she doesn't fully own the image I could use it.
It might not follow under the forums rules, but I know with almost all artist if you don't give credit to them making a piece of art, it's probably one of the most disrespectful things you could do to an artist. So giving credit is a plus also adding watermarks to your image is one way to fix things from being taken.

 

So is that it for this thread? Not a rule?

 

I'm going to assume I have the gist, you shouldn't use another person's picture because its like impersonation, which is a nono. Pretty simple to get, kind of unnecessary thread imo.
Won't stop people from using a picture someone else has because they want to though.

 

agree

 

It's illegal to use another persons picture without his/her permission. Not only on Skyblock. You can actually sue people because they use your face.

And I think it's a general rule: If it's illegal in real life, it's illegal on forums (which is technically still in real life but meh)

EDIT: Oh didn't read the tl;dr part. But you really should take this serious because you can actually get sued for something like this. At least it's a law in Austria.

 

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Are you talking like full blown identity theft? I can't find what Austrian law you're talking about.

 

I don't think that's true. I reported OfficerWade twice for extortion and he wasn't even given a warning when you could server jail time for that.

 

Regardless of all of the discussion, this is a punishable offense since it can fall under these rules. If you don't think it is or not, anyone doing this will be punished. Just don't say you weren't informed