...this all happened because of that exact contest...the "Romance Long Ago" contest...I too remember it well as me and ferg and cimerone are all friends and close...when it was brought up that there were legal issues renderosity decided at that time they needed to be more proactive in these contests etc and with reason actually as they could lose the site if something illegal is posted and they get sued...reguardless if they knew or not...the law sees it as your responsibility to know all that goes on and with so many members on this site that is near impossible but sadly they didn't make it clear enough to me or anyone else running contests till now...we were told like it was a "suggestion" to let rendo help manage it. Most of us got the impression that as long as there were no rules like the "brushes" thing we were safe and the gallery was fine. But it was during that point that this rule came into effect and not before. Honestly that is not the issue here at all...all of us contest runners can run our contests our way through the Renderosity Contest Gallery....the problem is the images that were deleted and the people that were "written up" without clearly knowing what they were "supposed to" do. Or in some cases not even having access to the area at all as it is in the "private merchant forum" and not all contests are ran by merchants. I truely hope that rendorosity will see the pain and anger it has caused its community and will make some sort of ammends in such a manner that it will regain the feeling of community we all have had. Not to mention putting up a place in the user forum for such requests so that users can also still have the ability to run contest because as of now they don't. I truely hope this does not end the contests either...the contests were for the poeple not the company...they were to inspire and to encourage and to expand the talent on this site and that is for all of US...which is why H&H is going ahead with ours...we did this for the community and as it is the community that is hurting it seems wrong to yank the contest out of upset...which trust me was definitly considered.