cool thanks @Ryan :) i think ive almost mastered the channel mask thing! the problem i had before was that i was trying to use a curves adjustment layer to increase the mask contrast instead of pressing ctrl + m
@DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ but mostly I'm really torn on making any more free tutorials after having someone that spams reddit steal mine as his own with his some 200,000 followers while I'm trying to get to 100
really makes me think I should focus on either a private video based course or look to getting published. I'm going to work on writing a few chapters and see if I can get Peacehpit Press to publish me.
I called them out on every single comment on the video. Anyone who said, "Thanks for this great tutorial" I replied, "you're welcome because I'm the one who made it. This guy just stole it." with a link to mine
fair enough. personally i dont pay much attention to the publisher's brand when searching for design books, especially if you get a few sample pages of the content to look at
well Peachpit does all of the Kelbyone / Scott Kelby stuff which I have very little respect for and doubt I'd get in without name recognition but if I did that would really be awesome
I bought a book on amazon that had a lot of positive reviews, and it was extremely disappointing in content. I wonder if that pay for fake-reviewers phenomenon is as prevalent there as it is on youtube?
well in this case i was looking for some personal insights on design criticism and personal design insights. but the sections in the book had a page dedicated to each with about a third or more of the book showcasing the author's portfolio. it felt like more of a "hire me" book than anything of any substance
@Ryan yeah, there are tonnes of beginner design manuals like that
oooh this girl I know wants to do a shoot with smoke and owns a custom auto body shop. She just sent me a photo of the paint booth area. It's got sick lighting and reflective walls
I'm thinking I'll buy some cheap mirrors to stick around the room and bounce a couple of lasers through along with the smoke
@Ryan Charcoal is not my project. I just happen to be a contributor. || Thanks for reminding me I have poor people skills . . . But in all honesty I think you're a bit upset about us because of that previous misunderstanding on meta.GD. And I wasn't even involved in that drama. || I didn't "ask a more inexperienced user". I asked a moderator on Stack Overflow that I talk with much more easily, and definitely has more experience in destroying spammers and their account.
@M.A.R. I've been a moderator for 2 and a half years and a member of Stack Exchange for nearly 5 and a half years. So... I've been a moderator longer than the person you asked has even been on StackExchange. And you were involved, I literally linked to where you were in the conversation last time.
well you just stated " I asked a moderator on Stack Overflow that I talk with much more easily, and definitely has more experience in destroying spammers and their account" and I was just seeking clarity if a mod that also assists in charcoal or if charcoal is allowed to destroy?
Now you went to your person in Robotics or whatever who confirmed. You also asked in your spam chat thing and ArtOfCode further confirmed what me and Vincent told you last time and what I again told you today. We have no way to see what you all are removing as spam
@M.A.R. right after I already told you and your response was, "Must be you guys because its fine on SO. We have mostly all mods on our team and they say it works"
@DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ He doesn't help us in Charcoal itself, because he prefers just working to clean up SO, at least for now. But he's already familiar with Charcoal
@Ryan Oh, have I really said that? Apologies. Probably weren't listening to myself because I was distracted a bit.
@M.A.R. Speaking for myself but I think when someone in Charcoal comes in here members of the site might have an automatic defensive wall present due to historical experiences. I commend your efforts but I think the members who assist in Charcoal should work on the execution as it does sometimes seem like a site takeover experience. Just from my point of view.
@M.A.R. except what you and Triplee suspect misses the point and passes the blame. You need to look at yourselves instead of continuing to single our community out
I'd like to say I could always give you an answer but you guys need to keep in mind this site works somewhat differently then say SO. We give a little more wiggle room and at times, as stated, the best course of action is to post on meta so everyone has a view.
@M.A.R. theres no reason to think oh well, then the fruits of the labor do not help anyone. I'm just simply making some suggestions in the process as I know from communication other members from other sites have the same feeling.
I came to know about that other incident only when most of the drama already happened. The members involved acted a bit uncool, and considering the lack of intonation in writing, it escalated.
@Ryan We don't want to blame anyone in the first place. Just want to move on from that incident
@Ryan there is merit in Ryan's statement, too. This is either the third or fourth time someone from Charcoal has made a claim on how we handle our spam but there is not facts, documentation or evidence to support the statements and when we request it we get backlash.
@M.A.R. but can you blame us? A member we are unfamiliar of with no SE staff indication telling the site what they need to do? I dont see how that isn't understood?
@DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ Oh, unlike meta.SO and occasionally meta.SE, which have this SO-ic mindset to them, Charcoal always considered the sites in the network separately, which is how me as a guy from Chem.SE felt welcome there
I would love to work and think the initiative can be justified but when a charcoal member comes into our chatroom and makes claims of poor turnaround with no evidence we will continue to take that personally
"Most of charcoal admins are already mods." - false by my count about 30% are mods
"Aren't you saying what we might be doing is illegal" - no I never said that. I said you need to talk with SE staff because you're clearly terrible at communicating even among yourselves if after all this time you're just now learning that mods can't see your spam flags.
@DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ Yes, as I said, if we are to assign blame in that previous meta.GD thing, it was mostly on the Charcoal member, because he overreacted a bit. But I'm not looking to do that. Blaming people doesn't help becoming friends
@Ryan I said "Who says you are?" meaning "Who says you're a spam problem site?" GD.SE was getting a lot of spam when I posted that, but it wasn't being overwhelmed by spam . . .
Oh, phew. I thought there was a recent drama after that. I didn't remember messages from back then.
@DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ I see. There seems to be this feeling that we're (Charcoal is) questioning your handling of spam, while neither I nor tripleee thought anything like that when coming here.
tripleee is just only concerned about handling spam in the most effective way, and IIRC he asked someone to help him with something in Charcoal which dragged me to this room
@Ryan There's no "you" or "we". You raised an issue that you can't see what we flagged as spam, so can't destroy the account. This is a valid loophole, and we're looking for a way to remedy it by adding a tab to metasmoke
So for like the 20th time --- talk to StackExchange staffers and get them involved in your project. They can then relay the information to us if its important
@Ryan Please re-read my message. The spam is not yours or ours so it makes little sense to argue who gets to delete it first, because 6 Charcoal users have the ability to delete the post by spam-flagging it just like 1 GD.SE mod has that ability.
Handling spam is why I contribute to that project, and I don't care in the slightest whether it's SO, GD, AU or whatever other two-letter site's spam
It's just spam and should be nuked
And we're looking to do that the best way we can.
@Ryan They're already involved, by the way. They increased Smokey's API quota from 10k to 20k, as I said. And they helped and discuss the autoflag feature before allowing us to enable it, but this is already too much help from SE's side, and that's why we can't expect more help from them at the moment.
@ZachSaucier The context is that there's this Charcoal room to which a chatbot called SmokeDetector that reports spam, which I don't know if you know about, posts possible spam posts. The room had an unfortunate misunderstanding with GD when one member overreacted about a mis-handle of spam by a mod, which I don't even remember. Now we can't cooperate about further stuff because of the unfriendly atmosphere :( Oh well, c'est la vie.
@ZachSaucier No, it's real. Really. David came to Charcoal and became an SU diamond. Mithrandor came to Charcoal and hung out for a while and became a pro tem mod on Literature etc etc.
It's on google play, but I can get you the tracklist at least. One of my potential projects for the summer is creating a good way to get a playable playlist from google play playlists (confusing sentence, I know)
that would be useful, also if there was a way of doing it vice versa. One of the reasons I didnt keep my google music was how much I missed my playlists. I didn't find them to be as well curated as spotify. Maybe they've improved since
@DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ @Ryan @M.A.R. @tripleee anything that still needs resolving here re: smokey/charcoal? I see a bunch of dispute but I can't tell if it all got worked out or not.
@DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ if you let me know what you're looking for in particular, I can go find it