I am a merchant, and I can see both sides to some degree. I understand that the line between virtual and real is being blurred, in some cases that is good, and others it is bad. The problem is that this site is world wide, and what would be consider lewd in my community, might be considered prudish in another. So we have to understand that there are many cultures that people are coming from. 2nd, is that the market went upside down late last August. After Curious labs announced the release of Poser 5, everybody stopped buying. This put an increased pressure on some of the merchants. And it seemed that the 9/11 anniversary took a bit of a toll. Then just when things got to going again, there was a major upheval with some rule changes at the end of Oct. Sales are just starting to get back to where they think they should be, and the rules started changing again. 3rd, I think that many of the merchants are sensitive to any change of the rules, and the abruptness of any change. In particular, this one happen within a few hours. It probably would have been much more well received if they said we have been too laxed on the nudity in banner ads, we feel that your ad should be replaced ASAP, but within 3 days. This would have gone over much smoother, and given the merchant time to redo it, rather than to just pull it. Sometimes it is a fine line managing all of the merchants in the store. And quite frankly they are trying to set down clear rules, so that they don't have to judge the "art" of the ad. I think that some of the ads did show a lack of taste, while others showed a lot of skin, but with class. I agreed that some needed to be redone, but how does one past judgement? That is a damn good question. So, as merchants, we are given a hit statistic, i.e. that your ad has had 112 click and 789 displays. So as we try to play a game with the potential customers, (at least some of us do) we try to find out what banner gets clicked most often. Any banner that get over a certain ratio, we put in a folder, to rerun in a few months. Any that don't, we trash, and try again. So, you the customer can be part of the solution. Because, what has happened up until this week was we would run a banner, and it seemed that the more skin that was showing, the more clicks it got, and thus more sales. The problem is that this led to some ads that showed a lack of taste. What can you do? How about reward the best banner ad that you see with a little acknowledgement, just like artist of the month. How about banner of the week? Just a thought. I see that your discussion, you don't want people flaming each other. You would like to see something positive come out of this, then take this post for just that. Let it be a discussion starter on rewarding positive events. You might even develop a following and move on to other areas. But, what do I know, I am just a merchant, trying to get by, raising a little bit of money to help my kids.