In that case, I admit. You have beaten me. I apologize for deceiving people into thinking I was the original author of that sonic rainboom screencap, and were it not for those meddling pixels, you could have gotten away with thinking that I cgi’ed that photo of a well-known lulz-worthy megachurch. I should have credited God and Lauren Faust…

@Prof.NightJack  
*also not appropriate

@Ponyweed  
It’s also appropriate to take credit for things you didn’t do much over all work on.  
Like-  
 
You edited something from the show and an image of a place, but didn’t say anything about where they are from, so taking the credit all for yourself.  
Now-  

@Prof.NightJack  
 
Yes and you put less effort into it. And I’d still have no problem with you tagging your name on it, as that is standard. So what you did is still tag vandalism… I’m not calling you on it simply saying it’s not appropriate.

@Ponyweed  
How thick is your head?  
I never said that, I said you need to put more work then some basic photoshop work into it, edits that have a lot changed count, a good number of your’s do not.  
On and about >>127475  
 
Oh look, I did the same in only two minutes, I must be an artist!

Here’s an example of a simple edit:
 

 
I didn’t upload this to Derpibooru because it’s a simple edit – and therefore I probably wouldn’t tag it artist:ponyweed. You’re saying people who make images like this shouldn’t be allowed to do so, however; in the absence of a separate edit: tag, you’re saying that the artist: tag should only be used for drawn art, and you’re apparently singling me out – unless there’s a list of “non-artists calling themselves artists” and you’re just going around to all of them…

>this thread  

@Ponyweed  
Oh ya.  
 
This shows a lot of work you did….  

@Prof.NightJack  
All of the images (some of which I probably can’t find since I didn’t upload them and you wanted to get rid of the artist:ponyweed tag without asking) contained a lot more work than cut-n-paste. I don’t upload cut and paste stuff to derpibooru. If I do then I tag it properly, as background pony with no artist tag

@Ponyweed  
You just don’t get it, it was clear you did LITTLE to the image other then a simple edit, that why we remove it, not that we didn’t like it, so-  

To play into this debate:
 
The Pinkie Pie is drawn by me with a mouse. I used a model for the hair and eyes since I was using sumo paint and couldn’t get the right hair and eyes (you’ll note that the eyes are a reflection of the ones in the glass which are part of the original clock photo).
 
Why am I defending my stuff to you? When my position is that it’s tag vandalism? Oh yeah, because BP thought it might be helpful to point this out. I feel it’s more like arguing on your terms.

You guys’re the one who went and removed my name from all the tags on the site simply because you don’t like my stuff, or objected to a harmless image reaction pic (this one) that I uploaded for fun. Can i prove that >>426795 and >>353512 contain stuff drawn by me? I’m not going to send you the .xcf files to prove a point when I’m saying your position that edits can’t be tagged with additional artist is incorrect.

@Ponyweed  
Funny, you didn’t prove you drew you drew any of it like I asked, and I’m not saying you have to make it all, you jest need to put more work into it then a few minutes in photoshop.  
Yes a majority of vector art is a redrawn image off the show but it takes time to do that, not cut, paste, and edit.

It’s funny you say the Pinkie In a Mirror image is a meme when it’s actually based on a Far Side comic. You must prefer purely artwork to parody I guess, in which case there’s a handy tag filter for “meme” that just got created… In any case edits where the original work is significantly redone, and ponified edits count as artist:ponyweed and artist:whoever else’s work is tagged in the pic
 
You also basically said that the only places you didn’t remove my name were the ones you didn’t find, or where you couldn’t prove didn’t contain somepony else’s original content somewhere in the image. I hate to break it to you but the Mare Do Well is a (slightly redrawn) screencap and so is the majority of vector art on Derpibooru. Same principle…

@Ponyweed  
Also can you prove you drew that additional elements of the two image, like maybe them on there own?

@Ponyweed  
Okay now your going to another image, one I didn’t even touch >>191063, and putting a comment about me on it, that’s very close to harassment when I’m talking right to you on this page not going to others and saying things about you.

I only removed the ones that were little more than captions or image inserts. The Pinkie-in-a-mirror one was almost exactly in the style of a tv meme image, so that went to.
 
Your Mare Do Well, One Big Herd, and Nixon images I didn’t do - because I don’t know if those are original content from you or not.
 
I didn’t even touch the parasprite one. “troll face” is in my blocked tags list.

@Background Pony  
I agree. There is nothing wrong with adding an artist tag for an edited image, unless it is substantially similar to the original work and retagged without the permission of a sole original artist
 
I would have no problem if an image were supposed to be tagged artist:sketch-artist and edit:also-artist, unless the also-artist did actual brushwork or did significant collage work as in >>351767 and >>221791 in which case they should still be credited as artist unless it is substantially based on a single work:
 

 
But under current long-standing tradition there is nothing wrong with tagging my name as artist on all the other images I did so >>127475 and >>40151 would count as artist:ponyweed, especially since I took care to also credit the other artist:
 

 
Note that I actually asked an admin about a tagging question on the latter image and they fixed it, since it was one of the first images I ever uploaded and I wasn’t sure about issues like this at the time.
 
Images like >>426795 and >>353512 may seem like a simple cut’n’paste job but they are not and I actually drew the additional elements such as pinkie pie, although it is not a question of effort:
 

 
It’s also odd which images Nightjack et al. felt were arguably mine, and did not re-tag, such as >>229277 and >>191063 since they were among the ones I put less original work into. Obviously I would agree with ProfNightjack that there’s nothing wrong with putting my name on them:
 

@Background Pony  
As in ones you feel indicate that your removal isn’t discriminatory on effort level at all.
 
Honestly my opinion that Image collages have been considered a viable art for for forever…and shouldn’t be not called art in this…but credit to the originals should be different than credit to the collage artist. This is something that should be talked about in the forums.

Ponyweed, I think if you posted more examples of your more Artistic productions which you feel deserves a name attached it would make your case easier for this discussion to go in

@Ponyweed  
You don’t get it do you, the ones I removed it from are edits that don’t take a lot of work to do, SuperEdit who make edited gifs does more work then you did one >>141091, so his stuff tagged with an artist tag for him make sense over just adding a star to her flank as her edits the animation to show something different you can at first glance.  
That’s what all the ones i removed it from boil down to, is it really that different or is it something that only takes a few minutes at most to make.  
I have done edits on the same level the ones I removed your tag from, not saying if it is better just that the one I did took very little effort overall to make, and I don’t clam to be the artist of them.

@Prof.NightJack  
I don’t see why you feel it is your call to strip someone’s tags from multiple images without asking, but I’m not asking for anything except the changes to be reverted.
 
If i got into the details of which images deserve to be tagged on the basis of which more or less work went into them, then that would be conceding your position that none of them do. But I’d like to point out that your position on which images are most derivative is rather subjective. If i think something is a minor edit and doesn’t count, I don’t upload it under my name.

I’m not arguing over the tag for this particular image since it’s only a caption and I didn’t think sticking my name on it would be an issue. Plenty of other people do that, but it is only a caption. I’m only continuing to reply since I haven’t heard back from a mod.

@Ponyweed  
Look the ones I removed where simple edit jobs, I can’t say anything about the ones Crazy☾ removed it from, but I will admit I was maybe wrong on >>229277, and I’m willing to add it back to that.

@Ponyweed  
>significant edits