I keep saying posts marked as “OC” but I have no idea what that means. Does anyone know?

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  • Otome-chan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I don’t recall reddit having an explicit OC feature, even though “OC” is indeed a term that’s used a lot there.

    • Pisodeuorrior@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Depends on the sub. For example, in some art subs it’s mandatory to indicate either [OC] or [place where you took it from], for example [ArtStation].

      • Otome-chan@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Yeah but that’s just someone manually writing [OC] lol. some subreddits had link flair to mark posts as OC though. Here on kbin we have “link flair” as “badges”. but also an explicit “OC” marker feature. Having that OC marker feature is something from mastodon.

        • lwgrs@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          This is semantics…people use a convention of [original content] on reddit, whether it’s an official implementation or not. It’s like before Twitter got official retweets. I didn’t realize there was a flair/badge for this on kbin until just now, but it feels like an extension of that manual function. In spirit, it exists on reddit.

    • Kichae@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Mastodon has neither a formal feature for nor a culture of labelling things as “OC”, though. This appears to be derived from Reddit culture, if not Reddit features.

    • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Many subs had OC tags or even rules, depends a bit on the type of sub. Otherwise people would just add [OC] to their titles.