The Broker making their own art will be able to say “This art was made by me, Josh” as the attribution, which Clucky will then reproduce in the gallery, identifying art with artist before responses have been made.

You can already do that, Josh

I don’t think that’s really true; under the status quo:

If an piece of art was taken from another source on the internet, a Broker is also encouraged to provide this source as part of their Art Submission

That’s not quite a free-text entry field; sure, you can say to Clucky “I, Josh, found this picture at…” but Clucky would likely get away with electing just to paste the link. (You could register http://www.joshsartpicksforblognomic.com and upload all your images to there, if you wanted, I guess.)

But this does still change things; at the moment Clucky can just elect not to include an attribution if he thinks it’s against the spirit of the rule (adding the attribution is a “should” action). If this passes then it’ll still be a “should” action but there’ll be a reward involved, making the decision not to include it much more vexed.

You could also put the text “Made by Josh!!! XD” in the picture, which Clucky doesn’t have the leeway to cover up.

Hah, yes, I suppose you could.

That’s actually a pretty good catch-up strategy, if you’re really behind.

My main concern here is that it ratchets the game towards nobody ever crediting anything, which is at odds with the dynasty’s statement that crediting is “encouraged”.

As things stand, players who aren’t crediting already will presumably continue not to, and players who are crediting will have a good reason to stop (because it’s giving away information about which artwork might be theirs, which isn’t always going to be desirable).

What does “If a piece of art was their own work” mean?

I believe “More Bark Than Bite” from round 1 (https://blognomic.com/archive/gallery_1_chihuahua#comments) was lemon’s original work but modified from an original picture she properly sourced.

Slightly worried that this doesn’t cover round 4 submissions, as right now people need to defensively include sourcing on those submissions just incase this passes. But overall this seems fairly harmless so I’ll give it a soft for now

Hm. I think that if gets made so that sources are revealed alongside the people that made the art, there isn’t too much harm in it. 

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