I don't know enough about that side of how the site works to give a proper answer, but I've asked someone who does to look at this thread. Kev.

Linking to other sites is fine, so long as the links don't go directly to the e-commerce sections of sites with such facilities. e.g. a link to a product description page at DAZ would not be okay but a link to the front page of DAZ would be fine.

Hi Anton,

Spike posted a message a while back (here) about just this topic. The salient points were:

Example of things that will be allowed in the Poser forum and Poser gallery

• Asking for help with any version of Poser
• Showing off what you made using Poser
• Asking for and giving advice about Poser
• Bottom line, anything to do with Poser

Example of things that will not be allowed in the Poser forum and Poser gallery

• Fighting
• Bickering
• Attacks
• Arguing
• Posting adverts
• Copyright issues (We have a forum for that)
• Anything that is not Poser related

Hope this helps,

Kev.

Welcome indeed! Great to have you with us :)

Sounds like you have a corrupted cookie or date/time problem. Log out from the site, close your browser, delete any cookies with 'renderosity' or 'bondware' in the name (delete the lot if you don't know how to remove them individually, it won't do any harm), check that your time and date are set correctly and then log back in again. 9 times out of 10 that will clear this sort of problem up. Kev.

Far too much has been said for me to respond adequately to all of it, so here's an attempt to reply to some of the points.

The TOS is useless, change it at once! Well, a few months ago there was a lot of whining that the TOS wasn't specific enough and too open to interpretation. We listened to that, discussed it and tried to add a little specificity. Now that we've done so we discover that those specifics in fact rule out certain types of image that in all honesty should be allowed. So once again we are discussing it behind the scenes to see if there is anything we can do to both keep the specificity and yet still allow images which, under a robotic interpretation of the TOS should be removed but are in fact 'special' in some way. If you think it's possible to write a TOS that covers every possible image and content, please feel free to write it and we'll gladly look at it. What we aren't about to do is look at one image, chatter for ten minutes and change the TOS as a knee-jerk reaction. That would be plain daft. (Don't start shouting 'you've done that before'. I know. And we've learned just what a bad idea it is.) Renderosity is run by a religious/conservative regime Crap. I'm an atheist. Yet even I recognise that religious iconography is very important to a lot of people in the world. I also follow a weird little principle called tolerance. A little more of that would be a welcome thing. It's an image that is >ONLY< getting a pass ont he rules because it supports a religon that is popular with the admins. Thats it. Admit it, let's move on. Wrong. This moderator would support the keeping of images important to any and all religions and lifestyles if they were of such great importance to those religions and lifestyles as the crucifixion is to the Christian faith. Someone mentioned Satanist images of people being sliced open. That's not as central to Satanism as the crucifixion is to Christianity. If it was an image of Satan's fall from heaven on the other hand... well that's a pivotal thing to a real satanist. - - - - - -

If I could have just one wish about Renderosity it would be that people could see that the TOS isn't a one-size-fits-all document. It never can be unless we just say 'post what you like, we don't care.' There will always, always, be images which require that we interpret the TOS to some degree. Sometimes it means we will remove an image that whilst not against the rules in a robotic interpretation nevetheless just has to go. Conversely there will sometimes be images which under a robotic interpretation should be removed but nevertheless should be allowed to stay. Kev.

Folks, we're discussing this very issue at the moment. Most of the time the TOS helps us decide quite easily what's permissible and what isn't but there are occasions, like this one, where the TOS simply isn't detailed enough to help us out (as pushinfaders has already said, if we had to have a detailed list of what's okay and what's not, what exclusions might at some time apply, the TOS would be enormous) so we have to make a decision based on what we feel to be the 'right' thing to do. We felt it was right to allow this image to stay. Kev.

That's just plain scary... Most savvy users won't follow the link but imagine the thousands of newbies and kids who will do. Then imagine their faces when their bank accounts are cleaned out. Nasty.

OK, so it worked with a different browser. Which one failed and which one worked? And can you reproduce this behaviour every time?

Don't know what happened there bud. There isn't even a 'Deleted' post there, so I don't know what can have happened. One thing I do know though is that nobody will have removed it just because you left. A thought: you posted a message in the Co-ord's forum to a similar thread... could it be that you only posted there and not here? Kev.

Hello TRock and welcome. I hate starting off with a bad word, but please don't check the Nudity and Violence flags just to draw attention to your post. It's considered a cheap trick, and is unlikely to win you many friends :) Thanks, Kevin (kbennett) Poser forum mod.

Wishing you all the best Asher. Happy thrashing ;)

OK, no more ideas I'm afraid. I'll point this thread out to the programmers and see if they have any ideas. Kev.

I've just checked the contest entries, and I don't see an entry by akura_. I've no idea what's happened, would you mind resubmitting your entry? Thanks, Kev.