Far too much has been said for me to respond adequately to all of it, so here's an attempt to reply to some of the points.

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The TOS is useless, change it at once! Well, a few months ago there was a lot of whining that the TOS wasn't specific enough and too open to interpretation. We listened to that, discussed it and tried to add a little specificity. Now that we've done so we discover that those specifics in fact rule out certain types of image that in all honesty should be allowed. So once again we are discussing it behind the scenes to see if there is anything we can do to both keep the specificity and yet still allow images which, under a robotic interpretation of the TOS should be removed but are in fact 'special' in some way. If you think it's possible to write a TOS that covers every possible image and content, please feel free to write it and we'll gladly look at it. What we aren't about to do is look at one image, chatter for ten minutes and change the TOS as a knee-jerk reaction. That would be plain daft. (Don't start shouting 'you've done that before'. I know. And we've learned just what a bad idea it is.) Renderosity is run by a religious/conservative regime Crap. I'm an atheist. Yet even I recognise that religious iconography is very important to a lot of people in the world. I also follow a weird little principle called tolerance. A little more of that would be a welcome thing. It's an image that is >ONLY< getting a pass ont he rules because it supports a religon that is popular with the admins. Thats it. Admit it, let's move on. Wrong. This moderator would support the keeping of images important to any and all religions and lifestyles if they were of such great importance to those religions and lifestyles as the crucifixion is to the Christian faith. Someone mentioned Satanist images of people being sliced open. That's not as central to Satanism as the crucifixion is to Christianity. If it was an image of Satan's fall from heaven on the other hand... well that's a pivotal thing to a real satanist. - - - - - -

If I could have just one wish about Renderosity it would be that people could see that the TOS isn't a one-size-fits-all document. It never can be unless we just say 'post what you like, we don't care.' There will always, always, be images which require that we interpret the TOS to some degree. Sometimes it means we will remove an image that whilst not against the rules in a robotic interpretation nevetheless just has to go. Conversely there will sometimes be images which under a robotic interpretation should be removed but nevertheless should be allowed to stay. Kev.