Karen:

Quote - The reasons why we've made this change have been posted in the front page article since the beginning, and have been restated time and time again, in this thread and others.

 

*One of our goals is to promote artists and show the world the wonderfully creative art work that is expressed through digital mediums. Another goal is to have consistency of the rules and presentation across all areas of our site: [...]
In order to reach both these goals...

*The first item is symantically meaningless.  Restricting thumbnails in such a way that they actually cannot represent the image they're related to is really counter to that goal anyway.

Consistency of the rules would have been better enforced from the web page side instead of forcing hundreds of people to change their practices, with many judgment calls and much margin for error on everyone's part, including site admin types.  Regarding consistency, that's simply arbitrary.  "A foolish consistency" and whatnot.

*Many Renderosity members have expressed to us that while they admire artistic nudity, they really don't like it when it's so "In Your Face" in the thumbnail. 

*And as ought to be evident from this thread, many object to the policy.  Obviously it should be reverted to satisfy us!

In addition, we want to feature artists from the Art Charts in the weekly newsletter. However, since we don't allow nude thumbnails in our weekly newsletter

Solution:  don't mail links to nudity out with the newsletter (you probably oughtn't be doing that anyway).  Or filter the thumbs based on content type.  Or contact artists who actually MADE the art charts before mailing out links to their content .  Again, for the sake of a few people (the fifty at maximum who might be on the art charts), hundreds are made to go out of their way.  Dumb.

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