sargebear opened this issue on Jan 12, 2004 ยท 82 posts
Nevermore posted Tue, 13 January 2004 at 6:43 AM
Personally I'm getting more than a little hacked off with people going off on a tirade about this site or another site. A boycott won't make any difference. You don't like the way something is being done, speak up, if your voice falls on deaf ears then walk away. You're not paying for the priveladge of accessing this site so they owe you nothing - not a bean.
For the record I'm neither pro or anti the way somethings are being handled. The TOS and the way it's enforced is a joke. You're not allowed nudity in thumbnails - what do I see on the galleries? Nudity. Personally I don't give a monkies if there is nudity in a picture, so long as it's artistic and well thought out then fine. But this one rule for one and another for another smarts of blatant hypocrisy. I saw one "offending" image that was talked about in this forum yesterday, I thought it was nicely done, very artistic, but at the same time I could see why and how it /could/ breach the TOS. Yet there are other images that slide past without a word.
In essence I guess I'm curious about one thing. The people who are continualy complaining in the forum about how this site is run and how they don't like the way things are being done - why do you still visit the site? Vote with your feet if you're that enraged, otherwise all your "controvercial" posts are hollow, just hot air.
I'm an artist, I visit this site to learn from others, talk to other people and share my art. So far I find a more open and welcoming atmosphere from the members than other sites I frequent.
This endless moaning and no backing up of convictions has gone beyond tiresome.