“What are these spiders doing in my thread?”

@TheLoneLampman  
Thank you for your response. I had not seen guidelines on artist tags in the tag guidelines. Perhaps that’s because there isn’t a definite line like you said.  
I would add another example, that being the “texts from ponies” series as done by The Weaver, but I’m comfortable with this resolution. Again, thank you. Really a load off my mind.

@Homfrog  
There is no definite line on where an artist tag can be applied, but this is far from it. Adding text and applying filters does not qualify for use of an artist tag. (Unless you edited another artist’s work, in which it would carry their tag.) Editing/coloring images barely does, but that also comes down to how extensive it is.
 
@Prof.NightJack  
Being a sarcastic duck does not help the situation.

@Homfrog  
If you want to know the details then talk to a mod, but so many times they have said image like this do not count for an artist tag, a simple grain effect and text are not going to count as you being the artist when you used a screencap from the show.

@Prof.NightJack  
I’m not really in the mood to debate right now, but maybe I don’t understand. Educate me.  
What is the threshold – how many edits would I have to make to a screencap to be considered an artist? Or are only original drawings art?  
Is it a matter of what’s art and what’s not, or does an artist tag mean something different than “the person who made the picture?” I synthesized this caption with this screencap, did the photoediting myself, put it on a pony blog I run – at what point did I fail to be an “artist?” There are artist tags on pony webcomics like A Softer Equestria; there are artist tags for people who only do coloring jobs. Does this image not meet some official standard?  
Look man, again, I have no beef with you. I’m trying to understand, trying to give my case, and I appreciate any thorough answers you can give me.

@Homfrog  
And I think you don;t know what the artist tag is for.

@Prof.NightJack  
Maybe I should have been more succinct and said something witty like “nice b8,” but maybe I’m more thoughtful than that. I have no beef with you on this issue, but I think you have an odd definition of “artist” that conflicts with the practical purpose of an artist tag.

@Homfrog  
But that’s not how the tagging works on this site, if all you did was put a minor photoshop effect and text onto a screencap then you can’t put yourself as the artist, ask the mods even.

@Prof.NightJack  
Oh, like you care that much. It’s a fun little blog I’m doing; I don’t expect to get big buzz but I’d like to think other TMBG fans will enjoy the pictures.
 
Anyways, at this point, and at least in this case, the artist: tag just denotes who made the thing rather than saying the person who made the thing calls themselves an artist. Whatever you want to believe an “artist” is, since you seem to attach pretense to it.
 
STEP ON SPIDAH

“I took a screencap and added stock effects and text, I’M AN ARTIST!, Really guys I am!”