Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: New Blather Posted... P6 Laundry List:

Penguinisto opened this issue on Jan 18, 2005 ยท 18 posts


joenorris posted Tue, 18 January 2005 at 8:42 PM

The issues raised on Sparkchaser, about CL and about Rosity, pretty well nail both, albeit with minor quibbles about details. I still would like to fill out the picture a bit. 1. "It's my business and I'll run it as I see fit." Fair enough, but just remember the old saying, "nobody ever won an argument with a customer." Your way works exactly as long as the customer is willing to pay you for doing it that way, and not one microsecond longer. Read up on how the railroads set themselves up vis a vis the trucking industry, and spend some quality time with the lessons! 2. So far as the Market Place dominates the site, you are pandering to the beancounters at Paypal rather than serving your actual customers. OTOH, it takes money to run a site like this. How to get off that tiger's back, I have no idea. Not my business model, not my problem. 3. The said beancounters, in common with some of the types who post here, do not understand that one of the distinguishing features of being an adult is to be able to distinguish erotic from pornographic. Erotic refers to gender-aligned behavior that constructs and articulates a pair bond based on mutual affection and respect. As such, it is of the essence of human nature, whether or not the Rev Mr Falwell has a problem with it. Pornographic refers to using someone's body as an accessory to masturbation, and is more emetic than erotic. As such, it vitiates human nature, whether or not the ACLU has a problem with your flushing it. Leaning a V3 barbie doll up against a free-stuff prop, inflating its breasts to six times normal, and giving it a suggestive title is pornography, whether or not there is literal contact to the genitals. It is also sheer dreck, devoid of any connection with "Aaahhhrt". The problem here is not only prurience, it is also (and worse) sleaze. That, I suppose, is a 50-50 split in odium between the poster and the mods who allow that crap to proliferate and, incidentally, drive out the people who might have put up some real quality. It gets beyond incompetence into moral cretinism when the mods flush a really high quality, effort intensive, tasteful series of images because they and the beancounters can't fathom the distinction, while leaving the pornographic barbie dolls on the adjacent pages undisturbed. 4. Me, I'd have torn off Rosity long ago except that Dr Geep's tutes are worth wading through the sludge. I don't think I am alone, judging by the comments I keep seeing here and on the competing sites -- some of which come acceptably close to qualifying as adult, both generally and as defined above. Food for thought there, and bon appetit.