PJZ99:  Actually, I do have to wonder if the upset is because now, the other half is pleased.  Was I supposed to be pleased before, when it was not my way?  Because it was your way?  I'm confused.

I had stated in my previous posting, elloquently I might add, I am a mature responsible adult.  If renderosity had changed it to a policy that did not agree with me, I would find a place to my liking. Since I have already stated that, I find the commentary that I should complain slightly redundant.   Actually? I would not.   I find no point in giving complaint or argument to something that is obviously not in my justistiction to subjectify.

Would I be thrilled to go elsewhere?  No, certainly not.   I would of course be dissapointed, however, it is not a life ending nor altering experience.   It is no more different to me than if I were to say, I decided to no longer buy products from vendor X for some reason, and move to vendor Y.  Its preference.

To me, a change to a policy on a website is hardly enough to get my knickers in a twist.  (Or panties in a bunch if you  prefer).  Just the same as when the Thumbs were allowed, I did not complain about it, as it was their policy to accept them at the time, wether I liked to look at them or not.

Simply put, I do not own this website.

Now.  If congress in some fashion decided to make laws against nudity in all art, or that somehow artists who did so in contraband ways would be blacklisted or persecuted, I would lobby, with every ounce of my being to rally against it.    Though some abstract and oddy arranged erotica is not of my particular taste, I would still defend the right to create it if one wished.   However, that battle is hardly as diminutive as cropped thumbnails on ONE website out of millions that display, sell, exchange and glorify art.

JenX:  I do not think babies would be possible in the conventional sense, however I hear many same sex couples use invitro fertilization :)

SDVL:  I completely agree that Renderosity could have instituted a better way to go about the whole issue.   I would take a guess, however, that their complaint department might have made the pressure to change in a timely manner insurmountable.   Perhaps, if we had even the slightest inkling at the behind the scenes aggrivations of the people taking the complaints, perhaps they made a quick fix to quiet the mooing cows.   Perhaps if those that would like to see something instated that worked better went to the powers that be with these suggestions directly, perhaps in time we will see change.

I would not count on it though.  I do not see many bringing out the honey for the flies.

I also would state, i am not particularly on one side, or the other.   Though I actually like the policy, I was not screaming for it, and could have lived just as happily with it the other way.  I am particularly easy to please.  There are more important decisions in life than to boob, or not to boob in a thumbnail........... like what I will have for breakfast.

Rickymaveety:  I pretty much agree with everything you've had to say on the matter.  In the simplest words, right on.

In closing, I do wonder ........ often, though less now as the topic is getting old, the "my way or the highway" seeming attitudes.   I really do not think Renderosity people sat around trying to figure out the best way to beat down the masses with oppression.  They are just human beings, like the rest of us.   A mistake?  Possibly,