"By the way, I don't think Legume was posting pedophile crap, so it may have been more about how he did things, than about any images he posted. Let him speak for himself, though."

No he wasn't and I never said he was. My point was Rosity doesn't take criticism or protest very well and used Legume as a well known example of this. I would never try to speak for Legume, he does so on his own quite efectively.

"Garbage like "you mean, I can't post Michelangelo's (or the old masters') paintings of nude cherubs?" just doesn't cut the mustard, because this site is supposed to be for original works, not rip-offs or scans or reposts of European paintings."

This was used as an example. I don't think anyone want's to start posting scan after scan of the great masters works, there are other sites for that. Personally, I look at a great many scans of the masters and sometimes attempt to bring that feeling or mood out in my work. Not very effectively I might add :) I saw a work by Rembrandt where an old man was sitting by a window, I forget the name, anyway it looked like Rembrandt willed light to appear from the darkness on the canvas.I would love to recreate that effect .
Now, if someone wants to attempt to pay homage to one of the masters by using similar figures,ie cherubs.I can hardly see a problem. I HATE child porn, Pedophiles should be taken out of the courtroom and HUNG! OK, but I don't see anyone around here posting child porn. A mother holding a child, a cherub in an Angelic pose blowing a trumpet, etc.
Hey, as I said, the TOS is written, its not going to be changed, so this is beating a dead horse.Child porn is WRONG, I don't think anyone would disagree with you, but that was forbidden with the OLD TOS wasn't it?

Message edited on: 03/28/2005 14:30