Misleadingly edited image: Moral Myopia

We had a thread on this before, but I don't think my "without being misleadingly altered" alternative was given a fair enough chance to gain votes.

Also, I don't think it's a good precedent to set that you can put a misleadingly altered image on the page just because popular opinion is backing you up on it.

"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart

"Misleadingly altered image"? As in it's misleading about the trope?

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No, but it's misleading about what the image looked like in its original context, and that's bad enough.

"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart

Also, there's different qualities between the image.

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It had eight days, as opposed to 12 for all the other choices. That's plenty of time for people to support it or not.

And frankly I fail to see what's "misleading" about the chosen image.

edited 6th Oct '11 2:21:09 PM by Madrugada

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Um, but what about the quality issue? The 1st 2 images look brighter in comparison to the rest.

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The last image does look oddly washed-out. Though that's not a reason to take it down. Just find a better version.

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The image is awesome, keep it.

First of all, I don't think that "it's misleading about what the image looked like in its original context" after all, the point of the strip was that Calvin had Moral Myopia, and the edited versions are trying to ilustrate the concept of Moral Myopia. And second, we need to edit the picture to avoid copyright.

Also, here is a suggestion, I cut part of the final panel, and changed it to a 2x2 arrangement.

Not really. It's not like we're using the whole thing.

And it's misleading because it makes it look like Calvin saying "as far as I'm concerned the ends justify the means" was bolded in-context. This in turn gives the wrong impression as to how loudly he said that in the comic, given the use of bolding to indicate volume. We can use a higher-quality image◊ if we want to make the text clearer.

EDITED IN: Here is another panel arrangement I've come up with...

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edited 14th Nov '11 11:26:18 AM by HiddenFacedMatt

"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart

Still, I don't think it's misleadingly edited, if you didn't tell me I would've never thought that Calvin's dialogue was bolded, and even after you said that, it doesn't look bolded to me.

And it may be just me, but that one looks really bad, it is brighter but the actual quality of it is way worse plus the text is kind of blurry and the image itself is smaller.

edited 14th Nov '11 1:05:40 PM by shark33

The bolded text is thicker than Hobbes' dialogue, as well as most of Calvin's words in the last panel. It's pretty clear, even if you didn't happen to notice it.

The solution is then to look for different-quality versions of the comic. The one I used was just an example.

edited 14th Nov '11 1:50:24 PM by HiddenFacedMatt

"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart

I prefer the one you just posted, Matt. Looks cleaner to me and the edited dialogue isn't obvious.

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I agree.

Bumping after... wow, I didn't realize it's been a couple months until now. o.o

Anyway, anyone else want to weigh in on my most recent panel arrangement?

"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart

I still like it.

I went ahead and put the latest version of the pic on the page since this has really lagged. Locking up.