I would think that a lot of artists appreciate the fact that they can have their artwork viewable here, with no worries about bandwidth issues or storage and/or hosting fees. Many artists use their artists gallery on this site as a type of portfolio that they can direct others to.
Regarding "I mean, would the site be able to make any profit if there were no images posted?..." I honestly don't think Renderosity will ever get to the stage of no images being posted. There are many, many people in this community who are happy to post their artwork here and stay within the TOS, or even in circumstances where they have had their images removed, accept the decision of the site without continual debate over the issue. I'm not saying debate can't be a positive thing, but I find it hard to see how it can ever be constructive when the party instigating and perpetuating the ongoing debate doesn't even seem to hear what is being said to them. "...I think this would help give a better cut to the discussion." In what way would this give "a better cut" to the discussion? How will it better define and delineate the fact that your image was removed for all of the reasons that have been repeated to you again and again. Do you wish to show your work on a site that charges for it, or somewhere that charges a fee to even get email notification that a comment has been posted on your work (as some do)? Who is stopping you? What has the profit making capabilities of this site have to do with your continuing (and in my own honest point of view increasingly boring) complaining that one of your images has been removed?
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