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Despite all these issues, image pasters are not outright despised by the community. Many scripters still enjoy finding new ways to render images on the canvas, and the creation of new image pasters is usually received positively so long as it doesn't result in more spam. Nevertheless, there is an informal ban on the distribution of such scripts which [[Lemuria]] refers to as the "OWOT Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Image Pasters." | Despite all these issues, image pasters are not outright despised by the community. Many scripters still enjoy finding new ways to render images on the canvas, and the creation of new image pasters is usually received positively so long as it doesn't result in more spam. Nevertheless, there is an informal ban on the distribution of such scripts which [[Lemuria]] refers to as the "OWOT Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Image Pasters." | ||
At the same time, there are many users who tolerate image pasters even when they are used for spam, seeing it as an example of spammers exercising their freedom on the canvas. | At the same time, there are many users who tolerate image pasters even when they are used for spam, seeing it as an example of spammers exercising their freedom on the canvas.<blockquote>''I want to be clear about something. Image pasters are not a bad thing. Neither are colors. Both of these encourage more valuable members of the community who dilute some of the more toxic people.'' | ||
''It might seem counter-intuitive to have images on a text site, but I need to point to what happened during the color ban. The amount of racism, bullying, calling people pedos for no reason, etc… increased, and it slowly decreased as images started coming back. General anti-empathy propaganda was thriving.'' | |||
''As it is, the people using image pasters as a coding experiment or to show artistic creations are helping dilute the anti-empathy crowd, which does ruin a website. I think by now, images have proven to be the egg that holds OWOT together.'' | |||
''(I also suspect that some of the people making inappropriate image pastes are doing it specifically to target this)'' | |||
'''— [[WindowToaster]] on February 10th, 2026'''</blockquote> | |||
== Types of image pasters == | == Types of image pasters == | ||