Forum: Community Center


Subject: Rules unclear and unfair

Primal opened this issue on Oct 23, 2006 · 732 posts


JenX posted Thu, 30 November 2006 at 10:24 AM

No, you're not the only one who I was referring to in that comment.  If you read all 14 pages of this thread, you'll find multiple instances of "but they broke the rule, too!!" style finger-pointing.  You just happened to be the latest to post it. 
As for guidelines (which I've linked to twice on this page) we have them spelled out for you guys.  The problem is..when people have questions about the TOS, they don't just ask "Well, hey, can you explain this guideline?".  They cross the line, then complain that the line wasn't clearly marked from the beginning.  We've marked it as clear as possible without having to go and mark out every single thing that could possibly get you in trouble. 
For instance, we could make a rule that would get rid of the word "bitch" in forum postings, because it can be used as a personal attack.  My post above would be a TOS violation, even though I was pointing the word at myself, simply because it contained the word.
I know that isn't a clear enough picture, but really, if we ruled that all Aiko images were to remain clothed, we'd have to get rid of thousands of images where Aiko is not only in the nude, but appeared to either be a realistic adult woman (of any race, but most often Asian descent, who do tend to look young all of their lives) or toon adult woman. 

We can't ask you for her ID.  She doesn't have one.  And people can joke about that all they want.  If it was a photograph, we'd ask for the Model Release, with signature and ID.  If we didnt' get it, it would be removed.  Unfortunately, we don't have that luxury with 3D models.  If it doesn't look of Legal US age and appears on this website in the nude or in provocative clothing/poses, it's got to go. 
All we ask is that people actually read the TOS that they promised to go by when they signed up.  Nothing more.  We don't want your firstborn child, you can keep both of your kidneys, and I believe everyone's soul already belongs to DAZ (kidding).  Just be responsible, and follow the rules. 
On the same token, we do expect to be called on it when we do something stupid.  As we did earlier in this thread, we rectified the mistake made against Primal.  He called us out on it.  We fixed it. 
But, the repeating that we need to make an "All Aiko's are under 18" rule is not fair to anyone in the community.  Like I've said before, probably in other threads, out of the thousands of images that are uploaded on a weekly basis, roughly 10 images get removed.  It's not like we're out looking to pull any and all images that we feel might possibly be thinking about pretending to violate the TOS.  If it's a violation, we remove it.   If it's the member's first time, we educate them on our TOS.  We don't have to do it that way.  We could just out and out ban people.  But, we actually like you guys.  We're not raging a-holes.  Most of the time.  ;) 
However, if it's the member's 4th time, and they STILL refuse to listen or follow the TOS, then they do get banned.  It's a hard fact of life.  They leave here screaming about "rights" and "freedoms"....with every right or freedom comes responsibility.  If you have these images you've made, and you want to post them, but every site with a gallery says no, it's time to buy your own server or server space to host them.  Our rules are no stricter than many other gallery sites...in fact, much more lenient than some. 

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