Forum: Community Center


Subject: Flexi-rules: to be bent or broken at moderator’s/admin’s whim

ArtPearl opened this issue on Aug 15, 2010 · 38 posts


KageRyu posted Sun, 28 November 2010 at 12:26 PM

Quote - What I find offensive myself is that I can work a very long time setting up a picture and trying my d*mnedest to make a good work and it will get very little notice and if I show a set of breasts I get tons of views.. That IS pornographic to me...

I agree with your plight in this respect.  While I have nothing against artistic nudity, and tasteful nudity, I find of late the galleries are being over-run by just tasteless and poorly conceived images that solely exist to depict nudity. At least, this is how I perceive it sometimes.  Since I primarily browse just the sci-fi gallery, with the rare and occasional look into Fantasy, I am really unhappy with the quantity of nudes that are appearing.  Many of them as well are being created with Poser - which only serves to further blacken the name of that application and prevent it from being taken seriously by some in the industry for the powerful tool it can be.  I have seen way too many images with misleading thumbnails, that once opened were a poorly orchestrated image of just nudity - often with little regard for pose, camera position, and using default lighting.  Most of them had inumerable views, and lots of ratings averaging to a 5, with tons of one or two word comments about it being great.  As an artist, this disheartens me, as those most likely creating these images do not take it at all seriously, and just want an excuse to showcase nudity.  I feel it serves to cheapen the artform, and the community as a whole.

That is my humble opinion, and I will no doubt be flamed and insulted for it. I could care less these days though.

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