Wanted to give an update on this. We have had several discussions regarding our webring and will be making some changes within the next few weeks. To answer this question. According to our current policy. "TERMS AND CONDITIONS: You may post as many links to our site as you like, although we will only track the number of new members who join us after coming from your sites. You may submit any link to 2d/3d art-related sites, as long as the name of the link is not misleading, and it doesn't link to any sort of money making schemes, click brokering, link exchanges, and/or adult sites. This system is intended to share our traffic with our member's Artist Pages only. Your link may not appear on our site until after the first referred member joins up. You may periodically recieve an automated email from us if it is later detected you have removed the link to our website. You agree to accept these emails and not report them as SPAM for as long as you remain in this program. If we find you have deleted your link to us, we reserve the right to remove your sponsorship links on our site. People caught trying to abuse the system, or creating fraudulent accounts to boost their ranking will be banned. These terms are subject to change without notice. We reserve the right to pull any link at any time." The members site is not violating the webring terms and conditions. I think the confusion is the webring is being viewed in terms of our TOS. However, we do feel that the terms and conditions of the webring need to be improved and our team is currently working on this. We have not had a good system in place for monitoring the webring and will be making programming changes to this as well. Once these have been completed and implemented we will communicate in forum news. thanks tammy