image bot vent [-]
someone brought archillect here.
it's a bot whose owner can't be arsed to make it source so much as the art/photo theft blog it scrapes from, & the quarter-assed "solution" they endorse is a reply bot that gets sources wrong so often i've never seen it get one right.
archillect's popularity & eternally dickheaded response to scraping, which the bot's owners will monetize if they haven't started already, is why i committed to boosting only sourcing image bots.
image bot vent [-]
here to mastodon, not here to the instance i'm on.
image bot vent [-]
I'm serious about their scraping response.
"As a result she is very limited with the data returned since creator/work information is generally missing or hard to identify, therefore is not reliable and risky/problematic to share without manual control."
LOG
THE
PAGES
YOU
SCRAPED
FROM!
If nothing else, cite THAT with each image! It's not that hard. I follow a dozen bots meeting that bare minimum.
But Archillect seems intent on robbing attribution for cashable fame.
Ban it.
image bot vent [~]
❌ Don't boost image bots that don't lead you to their sources.
✅ Do boost image bots that do lead you to their sources, especially if it's a direct link to the authoritative source.
🆗 Indirect links or leads are okay as long as there's no apparent conflict of interest (such as via a portal the bot owner controls).