Quote - i think maybe instead of threatening people with warnings..talk to them and see if you can make some changes or have them remove the art themselves without a mark against them.i feel as if is its an open threat for anyone who wants to use these characters..but i still dont have much more of an answer than this..

Yeah, I don't know a good answer either. I tried thinking about what I'd do if I were running a web site, and I just came up with the same basic thing they already have... make a list of exceptions that's as specific as possible, have a team of people review images to see if they meet the defined criteria without looking at the image as "art" per se, and rejecting the ones that fit.

I don't know how many images they have to review. I know they get a lot every day; heck, I can't even keep up with checking out the few galleries that I do try to get to every day or so. And I'm sure it's hard to do things "by the numbers", too, trying to say, "does this one part of this particular image make it fit that particular rule". I know that running a web business of this size and complexity is a huge job; there may not be enough income to hire all the people they'd need to do the job any differently at the present.

I doubt that any of the admins are callous people; I'm sure they'd like to be able to do everything that needs to be done in a way that never upset people. It's so hard, though; it's like the Halloween contest, and the rules that some people have objected to. The rules have to be in place to satisfy a lot of different problems, and the more people that have to be satisifed, the narrower the options are for everyone.

Or, like my Grandmother used to say, "Fair isn't getting what you want, it's when everyone else gets the same raw deal as you."