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Changed NSFW to No Changed Resolved to Yes

Changed Resolved to Yes We received an email from the artist showing proof that OP had been refunded the same day this post went live.

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Welcome to Artists Beware! All posts have been reviewed prior to being allowed in. Comments are moderated: Please review the Commenting Rules. Comments that don't meet our rules will not be posted. If your post is resolved: Contact one (1) member of staff or leave a comment, and we'll update your post! If you are the bewaree: Review "I've been posted to Artists Beware, now what?". If a beware needs a tag update: Post a comment! To contact a member of staff: See the Staff page or fill out the Contact Us form. Posts are not deleted unless you can prove they are fabricated. If this is the case contact one (1) admin, and we will help you asap. This is a copy paste response. May our autobot rest in peace.

Howdy. The site has had some issues in the past 48/ 72 hours. Now everything is resolved, but the default theme is absolutely blinding. You can change that by going to the bottom and choosing the dark theme. In short, our automod application was unstable but our web admin kept it in a usable state. When we updated the site the automod initially worked and we figured everything went smoothly. But a week later the automod caused the site to essentially lock up. Anything that called upon the application was in a traffic jam. Normally this is where I go into the admin panel and disable it, but the automod locked up the admin panel as well. As some of you may know our web admin owns FurryLife.Online, and I call him when I've done all I can do. Thankfully, while juggling FLO's recent surge in users, Alex managed to dig our automod out and restore AB. So, may our rogue automod rest in peace. It's been put out to pasture. I will more than likely forget that we took it out to pasture and keep trying to summon it for a while.

What site are you trying to link from? Edit: Oops, sorry the other staff have informed me I misread your post. We can tinker with how the editor works after we do some cleaning up from our recent site issues, but for the meantime using the "link" button between the underline and quote buttons will prevent the preview.

Heya! It doesn't appear that the OP of this post is following it. If you'd like to make sure they see this, then it would be best to PM them as well. 🙂

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Welcome to Artists Beware! All posts have been reviewed prior to being allowed in. Comments are moderated: Please review the Commenting Rules. Comments that don't meet our rules will not be posted. If your post is resolved: Contact one (1) member of staff or leave a comment, and we'll update your post! If you are the bewaree: Review "I've been posted to Artists Beware, now what?". If a beware needs a tag update: Post a comment! To contact a member of staff: See the Staff page or fill out the Contact Us form. Posts are not deleted unless you can prove they are fabricated. If this is the case contact one (1) admin, and we will help you asap. I am a Bot. My inbox is not monitored. Beep boop.

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Howdy! We get this question often, so I figured it would be best to address it via a sticky. "Is my situation bewareable?" / "Should I beware?" The simple answer is: Submit to the queue so the Queue Mods can review your post. The long answer is: In the past users would submit this question without full context. Full context can only come from the actual proof, which users can't submit. The community would leave their opinions, and the user would act based on these opinions. With full context in the queue, the queue mods sometimes rejected these posts. Thus the submitter would become frustrated and angry with us. After all, the community said their post was bewareable, right? Thus, moderators will close questions of this nature. Only the queue moderators can say with accuracy wether or not a situation is archivable. We will review your post if you wish us to.

Howdy! We get this question often, so I figured it would be best to address it via a sticky. "Is my situation bewareable?" / "Should I beware?" The simple answer is: Submit to the queue so the Queue Mods can review your post. The long answer is: In the past users would submit this question without full context. Full context can only come from the actual proof, which users can't submit. The community would leave their opinions, and the user would act based on these opinions. With full context in the queue, the queue mods sometimes rejected these posts. Thus the submitter would become frustrated and angry with us. After all, the community said their post was bewareable, right? Thus, moderators will close questions of this nature. Only the queue moderators can say with accuracy wether or not a situation is archivable. We will review your post if you wish us to.

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This isn't an agree or disagree situation. I'm saying straight up comments of that nature will not be approved. You can criticize someone's behavior without mocking them.

Hello. The community at large is not capable of answering that for you. We've found in the past that posts like this have people saying "yes beware them!", but when they actually submit they are disappointed if the mod team doesn't agree when full context is put before us. Thus, the only people equipped to tell you if something is bewareable is the queue team when they have full context via a post in the queue. If you feel a situation is something you want us to take a look at feel free to submit it.

While I did approve this, let's not have any more comments from anyone straight up mocking him. Anger, avoidance, ect. are all symptoms of mental health problems. It explains his behavior, but it certainly doesn't justify how he behaves.

You don't get to tell the client to "shut up" and "you don't get what you want" because you're angry. This is beyond unprofessional behavior. There is no excuse out there that will justify this behavior. Mental health or not. If you can't handle the customer service aspect part of commission work, then in the kindest way possible: commission work isn't for you or you need a manager.

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Changed Resolved to Yes

An artist's right to remove unauthorized edits of their work is a standard right. It doesn't need to be in a ToS. As an aside, in case it was missed in my comment (and I know not everyone is familiar with the species), credit to Adiago is required.

Yes, it's an original species. In the rules posted here, it says all postings of said designs need to have credit to the creator. This is why OP had it taken down once the credit was removed. Without getting into excessive detail, the creator is known to be volatile in general. Edit: Though I know in posting the journal I'm opening a can of worms, so for everyone reading: please keep comments focused on this specific transaction. There's a lot to unpack in the species rules, but discussion on original species rules is best kept to the forums.

Honestly, I am surprised to see Raven behave this way. The artist is entitled to the moral right of their work. Meaning they can exercise their copyright to remove any unauthorized edits. Raven knows all too well how the species creator is, and how she behaves. This opens up OP to potential harassment if the species creator feels she were snubbed by OP. Nowhere did the artist say that the art couldn't be used; just that the unauthorized edit needed to come down. We even verified this in PM that this was the case while the post was in queue. All Raven had to do was respond to the artist to work this out. With that said both parties dropped the ball communication wise here. OP should have reached out with a final warning before firing off the DMCA. Raven could have reached out to work this out before filing a chargeback. Now the artist has a ding to their seller rating when Raven had no right to edit OP's work in the first place.