Quote - Yet you expect someone to respond to you? 

There have been many responses, but the PTB (powers that be) responses have been of two basic varieties - "it's to make the galleries look more professional" which is nonsense, and "people complained about titties in thumbnails", which might not be nonsense, but is in dispute enough that it pretty likely wasn't a major concern.  Certainly there is a large amount of complaint in response to the policy change, and isn't my money as green as yours?  Then we get answers like "there were a lot of factors! ... but we're not going to give you any compelling ones."

Quote - And the complete irony, like I said at the beginning here, is that some still actually expect someone to be listening to them. 

No, only foolish people really expect the site admin staff to listen to these complaints - after all the policy change was rolled out with one week of warning and no open discussion.  The only thing that surprises me is that site admin staff bothered to reply to ANY forum discussion about it, what's the point?  They never would have altered the basic language of the new policy.

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