I am responding to this because my take is a bit different. While I do not normally post in the Poser Gallery and my work tends to be much more in the genre of landscape or science/science fiction, I consider my work to also be an artistic statement that often falls within postmodernism. I have attempted a piece that is poignant to this discussion (though my angle is violence rather than nudity) and was censored as a result. Yes, CENSORED. I know the argument is about thumbnails, and the new policy is an effort to clean up the look of the galleries for those who have set their preferences for nudity and/or violence (after all, this effects no one else). That part of the issue is moot. However, that part of the issue is based on ONE assumption: that the thumbnail is a separate entity from the artwork. Unfortunately, this is not always true, and ergo, this policy becomes a huge debate that is impossible to enforce on an across the board, equal basis (without individual review of each and every piece submitted). Many people have posted images that have thumbnails designed specifically to lead to the piece (whether you like their method or not) such that BOTH pieces are integral, one to the other. The Humor Gallery is full of such examples (I am surprised the Social Commentary Gallery has fewer). My piece Eye of God is a particular case in point. It is a cross genre piece that falls under Postmodernism (Irony, popular culture reference, multiple parts and seemingly disjointed concepts that rely upon the viewer and what they bring to the piece), social commentary, humor, space, science, science fiction and of course in this place, the ArtMatic Gallery since things here are also divided by medium. The thumbnail is specifically made as a commentary on this policy and is designed to lead the viewer to the rest of the artistic statement. It takes BOTH PARTS to make the whole. Either piece (or section if you prefer), by itself, is half a statement. The two (so called thumbnail and larger piece) rely upon one another to make a complete sentence. Many art pieces come in multiple parts, so this is not a special case or even particularly unusual. Just as telling someone they can only post half a sentence, and not a complete sentence (traditional censorship; see assorted government documents with blacked out passages), telling someone they can only post half of their piece of art is CENSORSHIP. This is my official response on this issue, this new policy is wrong and was a mistake for many reasons (regardless of the intent). My suggestion is this: that the administration simply admit this was ill conceived, rescind the policy, and follow up with something that makes more sense. After all, everyone makes mistakes and a committee is often even more prone to such. Admitting a mistake is much better than making enemies of a large portion your client base and that just makes basic business sense. Mitchell Davidson Bentley, M.A.