To all who have read and responded - my thanks for your time and thoughts in this matter

I am glad this thread hasn't degenerated into another Renderosity-bash as this was never my intention - I am simply tired of the overly-restrictive rules here and will take my pictures elsewhere

I think, apart from my own troubles which I'm not about to air in public, the time to move on has been precipitated by some of the IMHO craziness over the thumbnail policy. I was looking through the galleries recently for the first time in a long time, and I simply don't have the time to look through every image that may be interesting but which has either a generic 'adults' thumbnail, or for which the artist has been forced to create a frankly ridiculous and unrepresentative thumbnail. I shall follow my favorite artists but don't expect to add to them very often. And looking through my favorite artist list I see a number of others have removed their galleries too. It is so sad to see Renderosity coming to this.

I truly regret that I feel the need to close my gallery here as this was the first place I posted anything, and I've had some wonderful comments and even made a couple of friends through it, but the time has come to move on.

Once again, I shall remain as a poster in the forums and as a purchaser of content, but I don't consider my pictures belong here any more.

My humble thanks to all those wonderful and creative people who have fought the fight, and who remain behind, you have my best wishes

M