My point has never been about artistic freedom.  Since I'm self-taught and haven't had art teachers drilling that into my head my whole life, I haven't picked up that conceit.  My point also is not that there is one global standard that will make everyone happy; completely the opposite.  You may be crediting me with things said by others, but my complaint is about being forced to provide thumbs that do not represent their image.  Before the change I was allowed to submit a thumb that was a fair representative of my images, whether or not other people liked that; now I am not allowed to do that.

I also do not care for the way the policy was rolled out, with the cheerful candy striped tone, when there's nothing whatsoever friendly about it, and various other objections that I have that relate more to the delivery of the policy than the actual policy itself.  Site admin staff seems to have finally figured out that they should quit trying to get buy-ins from people who won't ever buy into it, and just quietly enforce it (not a complaint, that's just the way it should have been done from the first day).

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