so what has happened to the person that posted this picture in the gallery?

OH come on Illsions you know that 'rosity is struggling here with their overwhelming generosity in providing this wonderful free service for all of us. I think a limit in image size would be acceptable. Perhaps they could charge $5 to upload images over a certain size. Could be a good money earner. Actually combine that with a Gallery pay-per-view scheme; maybe some of the money could go to the merchants whose origional and talented efforts have produced the components of the images.

I think a limit on KB is a good idea. it really isn't necessary to have an image over 200kb. Perhaps a tutorial on compression on the upload page would be a good idea. As for the images over 800 wide I don't bother opening them.

Might be just me but the link above (sixus1 ) connects to a sex site

Trouble is it is very difficult to tell what might be in breach of the TOS. The obvious ones are self explanatory but the one that was used on some of my images "no implied sexual situations" is so subjective it is impossible to know if this will be used or not.

"yes. It just sailed over your head is all. The end result should be what's important. Nobody in their right mind thinks one person created Final Fantasy or Shrek, or even a simple 3d video game. In the end, composition of the piece should be most important, not whether you modelled it all yourself. Its like saying a painter isn't a real artist because he didn't grind his pigments." No it's not like any of the above. To use your analogy the poser software is like the the paintbrush and the pigments. No one is suggesting you make these. But to continue your analogy using someone elses textures and poses etc is like buying the paint and paintbrushes and then paying someone to put the paint on the canvas for you. Or in the piano analogy again the Piano is like the Poser software but then you get someone to write all the musical passages for you and then you assemble them into a song. Poser is a tool like the Piano or the paint brush and paint. The artist uses these tools to create their own origional work. The work is not origional if you use other persons creative endevours. Not the tools the creative use of the tools.

and is that in some way meant to be relevant?

The main difference is that most people that use other software use the software to produce the desired results. The vast majority of Poser users use the software to assemble bought textures, props etc. As an example Poser users buy poses when the software they are using is designed to do just that. Poser has become, for a lot of people, just a grown up software version of Barbie rather than being used to it's full capabilities. Nobody is asking Poser users to build their own figures because Poser is not designed to do that but you can make quite complex props, pose your figures, do your own lighting and certainly develop your own characters. Most Poser users use a image app for postwork so again make your own textures.

I for one, and probably quite a few other people, would like to know the answer to this question too.

why? Aren't comments and ratings enough? The Poser Hot 20 is the biggest of the lot as most people, apart from the the little permanent gang who all vote for each other, really don't bother with it. If you get 1 or 2 votes in most of the other galleries you will get into the hot 20.

"However, they do not do so without putting it to a vote" So all the threads that were deleted recently were put to the vote? Who votes? How many vote? All The mods and admins or just some of them? If not all how many?

So am I correct in assuming that any moderator or Admin can delete any post from any forum that they wish?

A lot of church art wouldn't be allowed here under the TOS

11157 views in one night!!

Sorry I didn't realise that the MP only sold Poser stuff. I assumed it was toys for everyone and therefore standards would apply to all items.