Forum: OT


Subject: Recent War Protest Postings in the Gallery

chanson opened this issue on Feb 28, 2003 ยท 44 posts


aprilrosanina posted Sat, 01 March 2003 at 1:00 AM

As those who've read my Gallery comments know, I'm very sympathetic to the anti-war cause, and not slow to express it here on Renderosity. HOWEVER, there are better and worse ways to do that. My somewhat long-preachy responses to a few images may be pushing the edge, but they're technically well within the ToS. :) Original art, political cartoons, etc. are all great ways to do this. But I think that this repeated-image technique will actually not get the point across well. The signatures are not accumulating, but are spread out among a dozen images. Thus, you don't show widespread support. The image's re-posting ad nauseum will irritate some people - and some will carry that irritation over toward the cause so espoused. If everyone who supports that cause posts their own original anti-war picture, THAT will be a powerful movement, all right. I'd recommend that in the strongest possible terms - after all, this site is for people to express themselves through art, right? If you want to do petitions, go to moveon.org or True Majority (US) or one of the worldwide anti-war petitions. April Follies