Board Thread:Official News and Announcements/@comment-6566165-20140709150845/@comment-5011255-20140913021833

Bigrika wrote: Girlofice wrote: I don't agree with the new dollmaker rule. I use doll-sites for my OC's so I can have a reference for a character. And when I have those references, it makes it easier for me to draw out ideas for characters/OC's. I am not very imaginative or creative person, but I am an artist.

I am not one of those people who justs post the template of the character. I have to have some sort of picture, since it gets my characters a little bit of a template the people can look at.

This wikia has changed A LOT, and I hate the change. Everything isn't as fair as it used to be. I hope you be more fair next time you make another, instead of taking away people's rights on doing things.

Sorry to be honest here but for me, this is just a excuse. I in fact are not very imaginative as well but I didnt need any doll maker to fill this gap. I used Google for references! And, well, nobody said you could not use doll makers as a refercence anymore. You are just not allowed to upload them any longer. So if you just use them as references like you are saying, then go on. Make a doll-maker reference and redraw them in your way. If you are an artist, that should be no problem, right?'

And by using a doll maker you actually exploit other ppls rights. You are using material somebody else has put alot of work in to create such a doll maker and simply use it without any right to. Yes, the doll makers are public in stuff, but "stealing" it for your own purposes doesn't make you an artist, sorry. So I think, even though you are saying this chance is unfair to you, it actually is more fair for artists like me who really put alot in their OCs, not only by making bios but also DRAW the OCs - with references - all by myself. It is fair for ppl like me because I cannot upload a hundred OCs a day IF I want to have an Art within their Page. I think you are mad because it isn't as easy as it was before, that's all. If you ask me, they should have been forbidden from the beginning, like they are on EAH wikia. I am not mad, to be honest. I am stating my honest opinion.

I'm not saying that the dollmakers are what makes me an artist. They're my only access to concepts. The only way that it is stealing the material is when someone says they made it when they didn't. How about we change the rule into to where if you don't credit the dollmaker/doll site/ whatever,  it will be asked to have it be credited or taken down?

@Clawdeen Ghoul, true, but some dollmakers aren't that bad. Starsue.net creates their own dress-ups, and they have some excellent clothing and hairstyles. I-dressup has some nice dress-ups too.