I'm with you on that, Kort.
If Rules are not clear they are meaningless. Of course you can't cover every possibility, but I have the feeling, that people think of being "downgraded" when the suggestion to move an image in a different category is made. And that's not the case - at least not from my point of view.
Shooting a photo and enhance it is one thing, taking one and manipulate it to have a new meaning is another. And there is where my analogy with books come into play. Documentation and Art, Showing an object or creating art is what are the differences, that are simply different backgrounds and intent, which are beyond good or bad, right or wrong.

This all goes together with a general overhaul of Renderosity's Navigation, which has become patchwork over the years and urgently needs consolidation and clarification.
See my threat in the Communities Suggestion Box, as well.

Just this time Renderosity would be better off, to have their members have a say in what and how things are going to be changed, instead of making changes unilaterally and then getting flack!

Stats could help to determine what's needed - and what not - there are plenty of top level categories, that are all but empty - or that get as many entries in 2 months as the Poser Gallery gets in 2 hours - making them pretty redundant.

And with this needed overhaul a new structure could be implemented that takes care of these problems to a great degree.

And with it functionalities, that are common in other sites, and which are sorely missed here could be implemented as well - that is that a user can add to his settings the galleries and subgalleries, he really wants to see and where he wants to upload - as compared as to go tons of steps to do so.

Not a piece of cake to realize - but not too hard either - a good programmer could implement that within a week - since the backbone is already there and it mostly concerns database queries, cookies and renaming and moving stuff around.

Starting off with a well thought out survey, that all users are made aware of would be a good step.

Cheers
kjpweb

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