Mosca opened this issue on Aug 10, 2002 ยท 94 posts
Mosca posted Mon, 12 August 2002 at 9:14 PM
Danfarr: "Why have these product names only been targeted within a day after they were put up at DAZ when they have been up at Renderosity for several months? Our concern about the names was diminished based on the fact that they have been here for so long without anyone complaining before now." I responded to DAZ's marketing of the product because I get the DAZ newsletter in my personal email, and sometimes actually read it. I wasn't aware that the package in question was also available at R'osity till others in this thread pointed it out; now that I've been made aware of that fact, of course I think it ought to be changed here, too. Your concern about the names was diminished? Meaning you actually were concerned at some point? Seems like maybe that was the right instinct. DAZ and R'osity are apples and oranges, anyway. The R'osity marketplace is a loose affiliation of dozens of autonomous merchants, all pretty much responsible for vetting their own copy. You guys come across as a much more "corporate," tightly controlled entity. If that's a fair characterization, then the responsibility for such fauxs pas falls directly on you. "if we had forced Dalinise to change the names before releasing her products at DAZ, then would we have been accused of either being hyper-sensitive or prudish (because we are located in Utah)?" Not by me. And of course this issue has nothing to do with prudery, Utahn or otherwise. But while I've got you here, what's up with Vicki's anatomical incorrectness, anyway? "So I have to wonder, if DAZ were located in Tennessee would the names have been any less offensive?" This question indicates, to me at least, that you still don't quite get it. Because you're located deep in the midst of the rectangular-states-anglo-monoculture, you might have to work a little harder (ask around a little, at least) to make sure stuff like this doesn't happen. Id be happy to vet your copy for you, as a matter of fact--my usual rate for editorial work is $75 an hour. You guys should be thanking me, you know. Not only are you now on the side of the angels, I'm guessing you've also picked up a lot of page views because I raised a stink.