I'm not sure what you mean by Clint handing down a ruling? I'm the Community Manager and Clint is a Marketplace Manager and although we work together as an admin team, he wouldn't be "handing down rulings" for the galleries?   But just to help you  understand,  this policy is taken (for consistencies sake) FROM the marketplace. They do not allow this in their thumbs either....The entire admin team (including Clint) came to this decision that we will not be allowing these types of thumbs just as the Marketplace hasn't been for over a year now.

The word nudity is not SUGGESTIVE, no one said that, please read the ENTIRE sentence

"No Sexually Suggestive Language or "Censored" language/images"

And to this question  "Just how do you propose to warn people if the WORD is BANNED!? "  That is what the nudity flag is for........

I'll say again

The thumbnail should be an accurate representation of the image
you've posted. We aren't going to allow suggestive or "censored" words,
blots or blurs.