PerfectN opened this issue on Jun 23, 2007 · 124 posts
Acadia posted Sat, 23 June 2007 at 7:43 PM
Quote - You see what is happening here? Great art is being trodden on because of silly censorship rules. PerfectN has created a brilliant image & we are overlooking it because of a damn thumbnail rule. This has happened before. Good art should not be treated this way. How the hell can the nude woman in this image be offensive, Jesus Christ I've had enough!
The image is not offensive.
However it does contain nudity and because it contains nudity has to have a cropped thumbnail. The image itself is absolutely fine...beautiful in fact.
So far as the thumbnail policy goes and censorship, you can thank the hormone ridden ones who felt that they had to blow up a boob or buttock or crotch so that it filled 200 x 200 pixels worth of space in order to attract views.
Over the years it's gotten worse and worse to the point that almost every second thumbnail being uploaded was a giant boob, a giant nipple, a close up of a butt crack or a crotch. IMHO the gallery arrival pages were looking like the back of pornographic magazines, and extremely tacky, even to those such as myself who am a nudist and enjoy viewing the naked form and don't use the "No Nudity" filter.
It's not hard to locate the nudes....just look for the strategically cropped thumbs that show lots and lots of breast tissue and is tagged "nudity".
Unfortunately because people showed no self control and it kept getting worse and worse, Renderosity felt a need to put a rule in place to force people to stop. You know that moderation vs indulgence thing? Had everyone not jumped on the bandwagon and turned the gallery into the likes of a porn magazine, I doubt that the rule would have ever been made.
EDIT: To fix spelling
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi