We understand that this time of conflict is a tense one for many of our members. War is a sensitive issue for everyone and we want to treat all members with equal respect. We are seeing more political images being uploaded, more gallery comments and more threads about the war in the forums. Many of these express strong opinions and as a result communications can potentially become quite heated. During this time, we will more closely monitor the art gallery, gallery comments, and forum posts with war as the subject. You can help by being sensitive to the opinions and feelings of others during this time by: 1. Not posting images which are deliberately intended to inflame or offend others including (but not limited to) character attacks, which could be interpreted as defamation of character, slander, and libelious. 2. Posting helpful gallery comments that are about the art and techniques. 3. Being respectful to others when posting in the forums on war topics. We will follow our TOS and remove any of the above that violate it. We ask you to remember that this is a place for artists to come together, regardless of cultural and national affiliations, to learn and share from one another. It will be even more important to help keep the peace here, where we will need it the most in the times to come. Renderosity is a politically neutral community. This place is about focusing on the art media/medium and to keep the overall culture of this community friendly and respectful. If you have any questions, you can click on the team below and ask any of us. Thank You tammy

I totally agree. 90% of the polital statement images being posted here are not special in any way except for a particular point of view. They have nothing to do with the creation of art (not trying to create another "what is art topic" though) and thus will not generate any comments that have to do with art. ~Rik~

the Team is here.

:) Eric

Very cool. I totally agree and will do all that I can to abide by these guidelines. Thank you.

I'm agree with all this the war is terrific but all the people are equal and nobody can use a site for descriminate somebody.
I love all the people on the earth and I'm agree with all you have decide..
I'm for the peace the love and the friendship..
a big kiss to everyone Orietta

"Renderosity is a politically neutral community." If that's the case, then why have so many images that have vaguely (and sometimes flagrant) anti-USA themes been deleted, but anti-French images/rants, like the one below, remain? http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=354987

touchez. score one for orca.

Orca, just tried the link and got : someone has deleted this item. :-)

Ok - it was a tragic event I agree, but they ARE extremely US-centric and US-patriotic. As an Australian the images certainly didn't have the same impact on me as they would to US-ians and I for one was quite glad when the mania for them died down eventually. I could also see how some people would be quite offended by such blatant USA oriented fervour and patriotism / jingo-ism. The USA is not the only place in the world...