panko opened this issue on Jan 12, 2004 ยท 48 posts
Crescent posted Tue, 13 January 2004 at 5:14 PM
I haven't seen any signs of homophobia by the Mods. I think it's a question of some Mods being more conservative than others, the chances of something being missed with all the pictures uploaded every day, and what types of pictures are more likely to be brought up to the Mods' attention by site members. And, trust me, doing the gallery patrol is not easy! Unfortunately, we've had people post kiddie porn and such here, so it is very necessary. When I was a Mod, I had someone IM me about a picture with 2 men kissing while nude. She asked me if the picture broke the TOS due to genital contact. I IMed back saying that technically there was probably contact unless one or both men were eunichs, but it would be discriminatory to take the picture down as two woman or a man and a woman in the same picture would be fine. It's possible that another Mod would have removed the picture because it would be difficult for there to be no contact, so they would be going by the literal letter of the TOS. I could have been accused of lax enforcement or ignoring the TOS for saying the picture could stay, but I was trying to be fair and use common sense. Unfortunately, there's a few who will scream at you if you try to use common sense, then will turn around and scream if you go by the strictest definition of the TOS as well. As well, when you have more than one person doing anything, you will occasionally get inconsistant results. Rumors to the contrary, the Rendie Mods are not Borg. ;-) You can always appeal a decision to the site admins if you think a picture was unfairly removed. They do look at each case presented and will make a decision accordingly. They may decide the Mods were correct, or they may feel that the Mods were in error and may ask you to reupload the picture. The "implied sexual situations" was meant for pictures that break the spirit of the TOS. We had someone submit a picture of a troll doing a pig. When we took down the picture, the person argued that there was no sex in the picture because the troll mesh didn't have genitalia. (Yes, I'm serious.) We've also had pictures that looked like intercourse but the artist appealed the decision by showing the render from a different angle to show that technically the meshes were a few pixels too far apart to actually be having sex at that moment, but it was obvious from the original picture what was going on. I didn't see the original picture so I can't comment on how I would have voted. I hope this helps clear things up a bit, though, in general. Cheers!