So a bunch of recent uploads of art by infinitedge are sourced to an Inkbunny account which has a bunch of otherwise (not freely) unpublished works and no other commentary, public engagement, or references from any of their other legitimate sources that I've been able to find.

https://inkbunny.net/User6969420

I'm a bit worried that uploads "sourced" to this account may be subjecting esix to unwanted copyright infringement liability.

I forgot what my Inkbunny account details are, so I can't see anything that account has posted. But ideally, only primary sources (artist, commissioner, publisher, etc.) should be used as sources.

edit: post #4333770 is the uncropped version of post #2891684 - visiting the official Twitter source on the cropped version leads to https://www.patreon.com/posts/55129014

It kinda seems like it's being used to leak Patreon exclusive content, and then being reuploaded here.

quick links: infinitedge source:*User6969420* / infinitedge source:*userr6969420*

edit 2: i just made ticket #134342 because this is too sketchy to ignore

I think the cleanup missed one - post #4329584

I'm surprised that the account hadn't been banned from IB after being up for 5 months.

edit: wow, is there really no way to report users, posts, or even comments on IB or FA at all? what's the point of even having rules if there's no way for users to report bad actors?

sipothac said:
I'm surprised that the account hadn't been banned from IB after being up for 5 months.

They tried to do it here, but the staff are a lot more responsive on e621.

sipothac said:
edit: wow, is there really no way to report users, posts, or even comments on IB or FA at all? what's the point of even having rules if there's no way for users to report bad actors?

On FA you have to make a ticket from their help page instead, then wait weeks for a response. After weeks you'll probably get a reply something along the lines of "We don't accept third-party copyright infringement reports."

No idea about Inkbunny, I've never used that enough to know how it works.

faucet said:
On FA you have to make a ticket from their help page instead, then wait weeks for a response. After weeks you'll probably get a reply something along the lines of "We don't accept third-party copyright infringement reports."

No idea about Inkbunny, I've never used that enough to know how it works.

It looks like it's exactly the same process there, not that they make that at all easy to find.

I created a ticket, let's see if they do anything about it.

faucet said:
They tried to do it here, but the staff are a lot more responsive on e621.

On FA you have to make a ticket from their help page instead, then wait weeks for a response. After weeks you'll probably get a reply something along the lines of "We don't accept third-party copyright infringement reports."

No idea about Inkbunny, I've never used that enough to know how it works.

both sites seem to function the same way, that seems kinda super backwards to me. making someone go several layers deep into a sub menu and manually fill out a report ticket is a lot of steps that most modern sites don't require you to do. also no publicly visible ticket feed, although I guess we're kinda an exception having that visible.

but like, could you imagine that in order to report one of those sex bot comments on YouTube you had to click on a hamburger menu, then click on the Support ▼ dropdown menu, scroll down because the list that's so long it goes off-screen and REPORT A PROBLEM is at the bottom, and then manually fill out a report ticket and hope you remembered to copy the link to the comment because otherwise you'd have to go back and find it again?

also the no third party harassment reports rule seems like license to talk as much shit about dead artists as you want without repercussions.

sipothac said:
both sites seem to function the same way, that seems kinda super backwards to me. making someone go several layers deep into a sub menu and manually fill out a report ticket is a lot of steps that most modern sites don't require you to do. also no publicly visible ticket feed, although I guess we're kinda an exception having that visible.

but like, could you imagine that in order to report one of those sex bot comments on YouTube you had to click on a hamburger menu, then click on the Support ▼ dropdown menu, scroll down because the list that's so long it goes off-screen and REPORT A PROBLEM is at the bottom, and then manually fill out a report ticket and hope you remembered to copy the link to the comment because otherwise you'd have to go back and find it again?

also the no third party harassment reports rule seems like license to talk as much shit about dead artists as you want without repercussions.

I guess they want you to report it to the artists, and then it's their problem. I actually see some point to this, because DMCA does not let randos report things. e621 in it's current incarnation is going out of it's way to be nice and responsive, compared to most sites, it seems. Google makes it a chore to report bad sites on their search results, too.

The only way to 100% ensure nothing is stolen is to not post on the internet. Post anything anywhere online, and there's a chance it'll end up here. It's just an assumed risk at this point, and not all sites care if you post paysite content either. Most don't have enough staff to monitor such things, or don't react unless it is reported by users.

Seems Inkbunny actually does respond to reports

Hi,

The account has been locked pending termination for a pretty blatant breach of our Ownership policy.

Thank you for making us aware.

tredfg543 said:
Seems Inkbunny actually does respond to reports

Well, to be fair, I have reported an account before for violating rules (harassing artist), and they suspended it within a day.