Casette opened this issue on Jan 20, 2007 ยท 433 posts
kaveman posted Mon, 05 February 2007 at 3:53 AM
Then they came for the fairies, and I did not speak out - because I do not render fairies. Then they came for the topless children, and I did not speak out - because I do not render children. Then they came for the thumbnails, and I did not speak out - because I do not use thumbnails - and there was no one left... Sadly, these arguments and rants, have all been said before and people just give up and move away and this community is slowly fading. Why because Renderosity is a shop not an art community, the galleries are here to draw the customers. The galleries are here to promote rendering to fuel the sales. I have no problem with this and as a shop they have every right to decide what will be in their shop window. But... My one observation is this, by progressing alienating and loosing the diversity of other types of poser artists we are left with an imbalance in the gallery. This then requires additional rules to try and stop the imbalance. Take away the children, there appears to be more adult content, take away nudity there appears to be more violence... Until what is left is a very very small selection of the Poser community. Will the sales from the remaining very small community that be enough to ensure the continued life of this site? I don't know but I do find that I'm doing more of my 3D content shopping elsewhere. PS. The quote above is in no way meant to trivialize the horrors of the past, please forgive me.