PerfectN opened this issue on Jun 23, 2007 ยท 124 posts
AntoniaTiger posted Mon, 25 June 2007 at 3:17 AM
It looks to me like a rule intended to stop blatant gaming of the system -- the censorship-bars stuff -- has caught one of the edge cases. But you either have a rule that applies to everything that fits the nudity definition, or you get forums filled with screaming complaints. And I agree that in this case the rule doesn't have a good result. In the past, I've done thumbnails which try to catch the viewer's eye, modifying the colour and tonal dynamics of part of the image, picking out a detail, things like that. I can see how such tricks could fall foul of the current rule, if somebody wanted to act stupid, artist or admin. And I'd rather have Renderosity playing safe. There are images that would be quite legal in the USA which, where I live, could lead to huge trouble for me. There have been laws proposed in the UK which would make accessing Renderotica foolhardy, because they don't distinguish between photographs, however much faked, and other sorts of image. No, they're a long way from being on the books. But this isn't a US-only community. We're not all protected by your Freedom of Speech. Some of us, I'm sure, live in the countries to which you outsource torture. Renderosity has to live in a wider world than just the USA.