#subetaspeaks

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Guess I'll christen this blog

Since Subetaspeaks died, guess we’ll all learn to come here with our praises and grievances. So here’s my first grievance:

Staff needs to get their act together on Subeta. I don’t know what’s happened in the last year, but I’ve seen many users complain about how tickets are taking too long to be resolved; staff ain’t telling us what’s going on when things are breaking; the teahouse is obviously a joke at this point and as expected, the focus on pets was short-lived of course; and staff just feel overly snarky and coy whenever they do interact with us. And obviously now issues with the recent server update causing sitewide problems that it’s delayed a few things for fireside (Effigy opponent, Black Friday CS sale).

I’m very disappointed, and expect better from them. (also new blog owner, be sure to add the following tags: users, staff, news; I only remember those three atm sorry!)

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BTW to the person upset about their priv items now being sold publically and asked if it's scammy the official faq says this:

Q. I said I would only sell 20 copies of an item, but it ended up being really popular. Can I sell more? A. No. Many sellers will sell limited CWs for more money, and people buy them for their potentially higher value. Because of this, if you publicly stated an item would only have a max number of copies (or batches) and attempt to change it later, this is considered scamming and will result in an official warning for such. 

Q. What if I said an item is permanently retired but I start to sell it again? A. This is considered scamming the same as selling more than the max number of stated copies (previously batches) and will result in an official warning for scamming. 

I think if the person in question publically confirmed that there would only be less than ten copies ever and/or it was perma retired, you might have a case? either way I'd def ask the artist for a trade back first. Since it's been a few years they might have forgotten they ever traded w you

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[subetawrites]

Oops someone missed the point... Anon sounding like murkrow rn THEFT breaking into my subeta HOME to steal my subeta PIXELS

Dw anon I don't fuck with cws so I won't make u share your pixels

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arguing abt privates is so dumb….like do u go over to other peoples houses irl and demand they sell u their belongings? get your own shit dude, quit whining abt how other ppl distribute their items. i have literally never seen anyone but saint price gouge for slots w the new cw system. ur more than welcome to pay the $$$ ur so willing to fork over to buy ur own cws if it bothers u that badly. if the matter of intellectual property were an issue then subeta wouldn’t accept tribute items in the 1st place…

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[subetawrites]

if it’s scummy to use “someone else’s IP” for private items, couldn’t we also argue that it’s scummy for those cw artists to accept USD to draw someone else’s IP in the first place? I mean they’re literally making money off of copyrighted characters that don’t belong to them. seems a little silly to target people who release these items because of copyright issues when everyone involved in the creation of that item (including the site itself) are also using someone else’s IP for monetary gain.

honestly at the end of the day, if you wanted a tribute item for your fave character that badly you would have paid the money yourself to have it drawn. getting all pissy over other peoples items that they paid *actual real USD that they worked for* is so unbelievably entitled. go to work, get paid the money, contact an artist, and have something made yourself. then you won’t have any reason to complain. it’s just childish at this point.

you sound like a little kid crying because someone didn’t want to share with you, and using the whole “IP” thing is so unbelievably silly. if it were an issue it wouldn’t be allowed on site.

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[subetawrites]

Ngl I think making tribute cws private is a lil scummy. Like….. it’s not your IP so how can u claim it’s “personal” to u and ur group of friends when it’s a rly popular fandom lol. Just feels like an excuse to sell rly limited copies for $$$ because u kno a lot of ppl are desperate for good tribute items for their fav media and would fork over $$$ to rep their fav characters.

Like damn. Its ur item and all but have some decency not to price gouge ppl cause of artificial scarcity YOU made up at least lmao.

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[subetawrites]

i traded a rare cw with less than 10 copies to a cw artist a few years ago in exchange for a copy of one of their private items which also had less than 10 copies on site. they recently made the item public unlimited in their shop now so it’s basically worth nothing and i lost out on a rare cw. i know staff doesn’t police private cws but this feels scammy. is this allowed?

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[subetawrites]

what happened to users riashire and bunny?

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