Hijacking comments to promote your own comic

[DiegoPalacios]

advertising is okay as long as it`s in the right space and time. The difference between an ad and spam is timing.

[TomDellaringa]

I asked him to stop and now he's made another snarky comment. It's a shame.

[ZombieOwl]

No rules.... maybe just ignore and think of it as a compliment; they think you're big enough and cool enough to use as a place to advertise.

That's how I started to think of it when "sub4sub" and "look at my page!" started popping up around my stuff.

*dramatic turn * That's all I am to them *dramatic sobs *

[kytri]

I don't think there's any official rules against this sort of thing, it's just rude.

I haven't had any comments like this myself yet. But I did get a DM here on tapas that was very similar near the beginning of the month. Sad thing was their comic was decent and I might have subscribed if they'd sent sent me a messages saying they liked my comic and mentioned that they also had one but the way they went about offering to swap subs put a really bad taste in my mouth. I was polite in my response but I find these kinds of messages insulting.

I feel like it may be kind of counterproductive too? It makes other artists first impression of you as being a rude person, and if you want to make a career of this being liked by your peers is extremely helpful.

[Kura]

There's no rules against it I believe, fortunately you should be able to delete it. Don't respond, because they usually get defensive and go full troll on you, just delete it. That's how I usually deal with them. Unless it's not really self advertisement and it's a reader linking another comic they read because it relates to a comment or a page, I honestly don't have issues with ALL advertisement, just intrusive advertisement that has nothing to do with your comic.

I think one of the worst (none bot) spam I encountered was someone that would post on my wall "Thanks for the Sub!!!" and then have a picture and link to their comic... which is, sure, okay... BUT. I never subbed to their comic. At all. I've never even seen it in my life. They were posting fake 'thx' comments on peoples walls to try and hide the fact they advertising their comic on your wall. It was fuked up.

[KoreanTacos]

Like I said, it's not worth arguing mate. Just let him do his thing, your audience will make their own decision. Last thing you want is someone talking about you to his own audience.

[Roshii]

I hate this lolz. Even when posting art, people has to like, "Hey, cool art. Will you check out mine?"

Also.. I remember this one guy where whenever I update my comic here in Tapas. He goes straight to my profile and say "Cool comic, check out mine. Sub for sub please!" He done it 3 times(every update of my comic) and I later on respond them to "Please stop, you done this 3 times now. Yes I check your comic, I'm sorry but I am not interested..." and he replied back. "No, you're just an ignorant bastard."

[TomDellaringa]

Yeah, I got a similar rude response. It's too bad.

[silverraven0]

Though I never have one on tapas, I got similar comments on instagram and wattpad before. Mostly I just replied nicely that I'm not interested with 'sub for sub', and just check their stiff briefly, and they never reply back, so I don't really care tho.

[A-weird-girler]

yeah they're kinda......rude. Like this one hilarious comment I got when posting my 3rd page, "I'd smash her, maybe that'll fill her up" (on Crystal) or "OMG I'm sinning so much right now!" on a non-explicit picture of 2 guys kissing

[Daknight]

I haven't had this happen on my comic (I have gotten private or even public message to check out their comic). This is rude and most reader will find it annoying instead of interesting. Is a link, so there is no hook (say art piece or something) so most just ignore it as spam message.

In turn it also makes creators annoyed at the person, so the less likely they'll get help from other creators O_O

Sadly is hard to manage comments in webtoons and since there is no private messaging there, there is bound to be more spam messages like this.

[KoreanTacos]

without saying names I'm pretty sure I know who you might be talking about...