As I have already stated, I like the new thumbnail policy.

However, much grief could be avoided if Renerosity disabled "auto thumbnail" generator completely  and went back to where we all had to create our own. Either disable or  make some changes to it..

If you don't manually enter a thumbnail, the system generates one for you by resizing the full image.  think the feature was created to prevent people from uploading images without a thumbnail, thus making the gallery esthetically unappealing.

The auto thumbnail generator was fine prior to the change in thumbnail policy. But it's caused problems since the change.

You can pretty much code anything into a website if you know what you are doing, so I think they should change the code so that if the nudity and/or violence flags are ticked:

1. The auto thumbnailer is disabled and the image will not upload until a thumbnail is manually entered or

2.  Have the system generate the Renderosity content advisory thumbnail automatically if the nudity and/or violence tags are checked and no thumbnail is entered manually.

Another  separate suggestion would be for the system to generate a prompt error if you do not place a check mark next to:  violence, nudity, both or none.

Or they could do the extreme and go with a fully moderated gallery where all images are in holding after upload until they are manually approved by the site staff and released to the gallery.  This way there won't be any "pulled images", just ones that aren't approved for upload for whatever reason.  If the image is rejected, a note could be sent to the person indicating why.  However, I don't think anyone wants this option :)   However, having it so the images need pre-approval before being allowed into the gallery would go along way in easing up on the warnings and bannings IMHO because you can't violate rules if your image isn't allowed to be shown.

PS: urbanarmitage if that is you in your avatar, I think I'm going to move to South Africa! 

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This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
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