wheatpenny opened this issue on Jan 22, 2007 · 112 posts
zonkerman posted Mon, 29 January 2007 at 8:56 AM
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I can't believe nobody actually tests this. Log out of the site and try it.
- If you are not registered, you cannot surf the gallery (prompted to log in)
- If you happen to know the name of a particular artist, you can Member Search while unregistered, but when you open their gallery, nudity is filtered by default and the thumbnails are all "Content Advisory".
The reasoning of "unregistered users might see titties" is specious and silly (not picking on you MissNancy, just pointing out fact).
The registration process is only an inconvenience, not a deterrent, to web surfers that is overcome within a few minutes. In the case of a PC that is shared by more than one user, it is possible that the Renderosity web cookies have been laid down onto the PC so that other users of that same PC can visit the site without themselves being registered users. This can easily happen when one of the shared users sees a web history link in the browser from another user and clicks it, which may direct them to the Renderosity site.
Now that I’ve explained that I would like to clarify something here. I’m not saying that nudity should be banned from Renderosity. Some of the most impressive images I’ve sen here contain nudity. I’m just saying that it should not be on the icons that people initially see. I actually do not even like the term “Nudity” in place of the icon. I think just the term “Advisory” along with a small caption of what the image contains is enough.