Oh, please. If you didn't want it removed, you should have kept your fingers off the damn keyboard.  Rendo reacted on the side of caution.  As they ALWAYS do.  There is NO TONE to posts.  Why?  Because in the written word, no one can hear your sarcasm. Usually, there are a couple exceptions....like, whoever is reading it knows you, and has their sarcasm detector tuned into your frequency...or, you say "Hey, I'm being sarcastic".  What I, and a few others, have read from the first post, whether you meant it to be or not, DDevant, was "Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!  Rendo changed a rule, and now they posted a nude on a front page article!!!!  I know it's a classic piece of art, but, still, Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"
Now, DDevant, I don't know your sarcasm style. I've read a whopping 12 of your posts total, ever.  I know that, when I'm sarcastic, or trying to be ironic, I tend to try to be blatantly sarcastic or ironic.  Why?  So people know that I'm either joking or being sarcastic.  And, even then, sometimes I have to retroactively cover my ass.
 What I'm saying is...your post did not come off as sarcastic.  It came off as blatant, in-your-face, whining, and/or just trying to stir up shit.  Was that your intention?  Maybe, maybe not.  If you hadn't wanted the controversy that has ensued, you wouldn't have posted.  But, you had to have had some idea that, regardless of Renderosity's following actions, there would have been a shitstorm either way.  If they had left the image in the front page article, there would be twice as many decrying the site of censorship, and worse. 

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