thefrogman

Swords in the movies seem to be impossibly sharp. Chopping off heads like a warm knife through butter. Cutting lesser swords in half. What degree of sharpness is actually possible and what is the sharpest thing you've ever made?

I am a content creator. My work has been featured on the front page of reddit many times. However, it is rarely linked to my website, and often it is not sourced in the comments. I am friends with many other content creators. Artists, humorists, web comics, photographers. When our work gets to the front page we are often ecstatic at first. But then we see that imgur link next to the post and we can't help but be disappointed.

Just today I saw this on the front page.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/sk17p/if_only_the_real_world_was_this_predictable/

The post was submitted using imgur. The source was put in the comments, but it is below the fold. The artist has a website with two ads. Not only is he losing potential audience, but ad revenue as well. And PLEASE don't anyone say, "It's watermarked." Watermarking alone RARELY increases traffic. I've been doing this for 3 years and I can say that without a doubt. Easily viewed clickable links are what help traffic.

Reddit allows us little recourse to claim our works. We can leave a link in the comments and hope it gets upvoted, or we can have the post removed. The traffic difference between being linked to directly and linked to in the comments is often more than 100,000 visitors. For those of us who pay our bills with ad revenue, this can certainly be frustrating.

I feel like this issue could be easily addressed in two ways. Allow moderators to change the link of the post. Or add a source option to submissions that can be updated after the post is live. It can still go to imgur, but the post title has a link to our site as well. It would be nice if imgur had a source option too.

Content creators fill your front page. They are what make your site enjoyable. You depend on them. But these artists are constantly getting the shaft. They aren't greedy blogspammers trying to trick people into going to their site. They are just trying to do something they love and maybe pay the rent as well.

So I ask you. Is reddit doing anything to address this issue?