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Subject: New Thumbnail Policy - Please read

StaceyG opened this issue on Jan 22, 2007 · 423 posts


RajDArge posted Fri, 26 January 2007 at 1:50 PM

actually I have a serious point to make at this stage rather than pot stirring:
What this policy represents to me is lazy programing and lazy site management.

Let me justify why:
At renderotica, where i upload the majority of my artwork. There are genre's. Eg Male Solo, Male/Female Male/Male. etc. You decide a genre when you upload. ANd you set your prefereces when you join the site, and are encouraged to do so. As some people find that certain situations in life are "offensive".  So all those images in that category are invisible to the the memeber. Even if you have uploaded the artwork yourself and have ticked it as a genre that is not available to you (I upload artwork for other peoples pleasure...) I cannot see it myself unless I change my preferences. I do this temporaririly and then change them back.
And you are foreced to pic a genre or the site will not let you upload the pic.  And if a pic is in the wrong genre, the user can very quickly tell by the thumbnail that "hey I didn't want to see that" and reports it to managment. They re-classify (not ban unless its against the TOS) - no harm done. Sure I've ticked the wrong box a couple of times, and had images re-classified. Its no biggie really.
So to me, the site is completely hetero, even though I have uploaded some Homo-erotic artwork there myself - I cannot see it unless I actively change settings....
Now on this site there are only 3 boxes to tick (that should by default be on) as opposed to the  11 or so choices on renderotica. 
And if people choose wrong: dont threaten them, correct their mistake and put it into the right area. In 3 years of membership at Otica I can count on 1 hand that number of times an image has been in the wrong category for me and I have reported it.
Also if I tick the wrong box on purpose, well the wrong people see my image, I offend someone and I upload images for other people to enjoy or be startled by - not to offend them. (well thats not entirely true, but I dont want to offend them on sexual orientation grounds...)
So this "more professional site" guff aside: the site is here to cater for my needs(an the needs of the membership) and for me to spend my hard earned cash to continue to satisfy my needs. There are many out there: photography land, poser land, and other lands that want to see the nudity and violence and have set their preferences to do so. And a big complaint is that there are items in the marketplace that now cannot be used in the galleries.
so be inclusive in an exclusive way. There are things I dont want to see too, but I set up renderotica so that I can see only what genre's I want to...and my sensibilities remain intact.
Raj