Want to get rid of the annoying adverts? The answer is simple. There are 4 levels of advertising on AnimeOTK:
Level 1: (Your Level, guests and members with 0-9 posts) has maximum advertising. Level 2: (A user with 10 or more posts who has been a member over two weeks) have vastly reduced advertising (including removal of the large full screen closable adverts) Level 3: (A member who has been registered over a month and has over 50 posts, or has a special account like "artist" or "writer" sees minimal advertising. Level 4: (VIP Donators) receive no advertising.
All donators of $10 or more will never see an advert on our site again!
No, I'm saying you can't sell stuff here: putting up adverts, teasers, excerpts, snippets and saying 'go here to buy the rest' makes it an advert to us.
Donations can be made via our own Patreon (yes, I know, I know, but it's one of the few sites people now see as bridging the credibility gap). The only reason I'm not being more explicit about it is I don't want you to think it's any kind of extortion or quid pro quo to let you post links to your own patreon. That's not the takeaway here.
For the headspace we want... the only reason we'd like you to be posting art to this site is so it can be enjoyed by our members here. The only rewards we capable to give to contributors is a green artist account and your own artist gallery to give you bragging rights on this site.
We didn't stop your links to patreon before because they weren't telling people to go to someone elses site to see things that aren't available here. We don't allow that in communal.
There is a way to donate to site, it is in forum, I forget where.
Overall we do not want to take your money to let you advertise although some people do this they are already artist member with their own gallery and many years of free drawings and they contribute to the site with custom works for fun because they like us.
When we say 'Artist Members' we refer to the people with the green name and account and they have their own galleries. Advertising is kept out of communal gallery which is for people posting content as part of the 'approvals process' to become artist members of the site.
It's where you should post to showcase your best stuff.
There are no rigid rules with free/paid content as there's too much variety and so each case must be individual. You are posting an advert for a comic which is paywall and charged for, unless you will post the whole comic here then is just monetized advertising.
Forget 'Free/Paid.'
Unless you are drawing for fun and posting pictures for fun then you have the wrong headspace for this site. We want people to post for fun. If you have a patreon and are sending people there to pay for your art you are a commercial artist. If you post some stuff for free just to attract people to pay later... still commercial.
Please read our rules - advertising and adverts may only be posted by artist members and is not permitted in the communal gallery.
We're not trying to be hard on people which is why we don't object to linking etc - but posting adverts or teasers for paid content is not permitted and your latest upload clearly crosses this line. It's blatantly an advert designed to drive traffic from our site to a paywalled site that's already one of the biggest and richest on the internet.
If you want to be a commercial artist that's great, all the best of luck in the whole world, you can go pay for advertising somewhere.
We're a hobby site, our galleries are for people who largely draw and post for fun. We really just want people to come here and enjoy works that are freely shared by hobby artists - not paywall content.
If you have any questions please let me know with a reply on my wall.
