Thorne, How many warnings did she need? emails, IMs, and phone calls? This was not a sudden move, but something which has gone on since last year at least. Bannings are given for a repeated pattern of flaunting the rules. You don't get banned unless you continue to ignore the warnings and repeat the offensive behavior a number of times. That is in the TOS. As mentioned above, talent has NOTHING to do with it. Even Picasso or Michaelangelo or Ingres or Rembrandt or any other deservedly great artist can't post images of children with their genitals showing in the galleries at this website. No genitals on underage figures. The treatment of the subject has nothing to do with it. Even the Pope can't hang a naked baby Jesus here or putti with wings... it doesn't matter if it is human, faerie, or godling, with insect wings or angel wings or no wings at all. No genitals on underage figures. Prettiness or ugliness has nothing to do with it. No genitals on underage figures. This website is a private, commercial website which has to follow rules established by other entities, including the government and the banks. The artists who join this site agree to follow rules. The artists who post to the galleries agree to follow rules. Why should an exception be made? Why should Heart'Song or any other aggrieved artist feel that they don't have to follow the rules they signed? As evidenced at PoserPros last month, even site owners (who may have a valid claim to special treatment) have to follow the rules. When posting on your website, I follow your rules, just as I would if I were in your livingroom. Posting on my own website, I can follow my own. Someone who doesn't like rules can buy a domain name and set up a gallery for very little money and effort. Heart'Song is at complete liberty to make her own gallery and post as many naked children as she wants in it... just not on this site. Carolly