Quote - So, nudity should be an all-or-nothing shot?  If I wanted to view explicit nudity/erotica, there's always r'otica or raunchy minds.  However, those of us (it's not just me, btw.  I just happen to be yelling loudly) who do choose to view nudes....well, it's all about that wonderful word: choice.  That's what the nudity flags are for...for those who choose not to view those types of images.  However, for those of us who, when the whim carries us, choose to view them, we want it to be our choice, not shoved down our throats. 

 

That's my whole point is that it is about choice. How is taking away the choice and having no nudity shoved down others throats increasing it? Is it because some hypocrites want to have their personal taste forced on everyone? Nudity shouldn't be an all or nothing shot so why force a certain opinion of what they consider to be appropriate onto others? 

That's what the nudity flags are supposed to be for, not to CYA because you think you'll get into trouble for any flash of skin and to give those who don't want to view nudity a choice not to see it if they don't want to.

So how is forcing everyone to have no nudity in the thumbnails giving them a choice? That sounds like an all or nothing shot to me.

I always thought the lengths that people like boobrepli and willdial wento were funny because they were outrageously out of proportion. Does that mean that I was going to force them to dial back to a more sane level? No, because I tolerate their personal taste and gave them the choice to do their images the way they saw fit. I wouldn't want them to dictate what I put in my images either.

But that doesn't seem to apply to some on here that think they have a right to enforce their personal taste on others and take away their choices. To use your analogy again, if you didn't like the people on the beach, instead of going somewhere else, you got some security people to come and throw them off the beach.

If you were to submit your art to a local gallery for years and suddenly they changed their policy to something different then you'd wonder why if it was alright before then why is it so bad now? Other places might have stricter rules, but that's not what I agreed to when I signed up in 2002 so that doesn't really apply here.

The debate won't improve your renders and certainly the curtailing of choice won't but what good is putting all that time and effort into making a killer render if you aren't allowed to show it here?

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