Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Why Did This Poser Thread Get Locked?

ChuckEvans opened this issue on Dec 01, 2003 ยท 71 posts


ChuckEvans posted Mon, 01 December 2003 at 8:52 AM

milamber: Some good points there. A few added remarks if I may... I wasn't suggesting, in my "workplace" example that someone was under investigation. It's improper to hang a pinup calendar (and similar material) in the workplace. Investigation or not. So, seeing a similar type image on a monitor is just as bad as having the month od December showing. You support part of my argument when you post about Peoria. Meaning, let's suppose I did a render exactly like the billboard you refer to and because the figure had clothes (any number of people having provided difinitions), I did not check the nudity tag. What if one of the same people from Peoria saw my image and decided it should have been tagged and began posting to me about it (complete with exclamation points and uppercase printing)? That's one of the points I've been trying to make...there is ALWAYS someone who is going to open a message containing an image THEY felt was improper, be it someone from Peoria, Saudi Arabia, or Vatican City. And if artists start bowing to every person who complains because they can't browse while at work or browse while their children look or are offended because of the community/state/country they live in or, finally, because of their religion, then pretty soon, there will be no nude images on this site, period. That is the "creeping" I've been referring to and, though it's an extreme example, it's something that can happen on a similar scale. As to the location of the R'City site, yes I understand they need to follow the laws of the place they live. However, I sincerely doubt R'City would get in legal trouble for the topic we are discussing. Additionally, I suspect R'City has to be worried about worldwide laws. I'm no legal expert but I DO know that Ebay and Amazon have had to make various adjustments to their site due to breaking the laws of other various countries (most notably, Germany). You are correct in that it's not an "end of the world" topic. It's just the principle of the thing that irritatates me...that people can disagree with the person who didn't use a nudity tag and then proceed to berate them for it for various stupid reasons which sets the stage for the poster to defend her/imself. All I'm saying is let the poster make his or her decision and if a viewer doesn't like it, let them "run" to the mods.