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Thread: Sloop John B - now on sale! | Forum: MarketPlace Showcase
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Thread: The REAL reason to be glad when P5 comes out.... | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
uh... is there any way to get a copy of that "sky" thing for free around here? (sorry. couldn't resist.)
Thread: Change to the galleries rating system | Forum: Community Center
my! i didn't realize there'd be a question to me on this. i think the rating system may be too "detailed" (based on some experience in this field). to be effective as a "quick critique" feature, the ratings should probably be held to 5 options, overall. this is digestable and succinct enough without allowing for "hedging" when used for overall assessment. however, if the goal of the rating system is to provide a comparator - to index artists against each other - then the granularity is appropriate. granularity provides for a level of discrete differentiation among many with similar comparators. that all being said, some folks prefer "grades;" other do not. but i thank the admins for doing what they do and trying to improve what they can. it's most appreciated.
Thread: Change to the galleries rating system | Forum: Community Center
so noted. thank you for the change. your efforts to keep improving the site are appreciated. (never an easy proposition, i'm sure, when dealing system-wide.) the scale has a lot of granularity! why?
Thread: How about a story? | Forum: Challenge Arena
Content Advisory! This message contains nudity
Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=218270&Start=1&Artist=spook&ByArtist=Yes
a simple story....Thread: Aki Ross nude image in the Poser Gallery | Forum: Community Center
Thread: Aki Ross nude image in the Poser Gallery | Forum: Community Center
Attached Link: http://www.angelfire.com/movies/akiross/main.html
i think the images in the included URL are the ones from which the composite was made.... (if it was maya, i think the CGI was incredible.)Thread: need an opinion | Forum: MarketPlace Showcase
Thread: OK, one more time The TOS has ben updated..... | Forum: Community Center
administrators: for all of your efforts, thank you. i post this message because of other threads (in other fora) in recent days that argue the intent and meaning of the TOS in terms of "appropriateness" and as "food for thought" for anyone reading this message. from the u.s. supreme court and justice douglas in 1966 upon the reversal of the finding by the massachusetts supreme court that "fanny hill" (1749) was obscene and to be banned from that state's libraries. (the "censor" is NOT the administration of this on-line community in my thinking.) "... The (u.s.)Constitution forbids abridgment of 'freedom of speech, or of the press.' Censorship is the most notorious form of abridgment. It substitutes majority rule where minority tastes or viewpoints were to be tolerated.... Every time an obscenity case is to be argued here, my office is flooded with letters and postal cards urging me [383 U.S. 413, 428] to protect the community or the Nation by striking down the publication... The drives are incessant and the pressures are great. Happily we do not bow to them. I mention them only to emphasize the lack of popular understanding of our constitutional system. Publications and utterances were made immune from majoritarian control by the First Amendment, applicable to the States by reason of the Fourteenth. No exceptions were made, not even for obscenity. The Court's contrary conclusion in Roth, where obscenity was found to be "outside" the First Amendment, is without justification.... ... The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.... (here, cases are cited) Perhaps the most frequently assigned justification for censorship is the belief that erotica produce antisocial sexual conduct. But that relationship has yet to be proven.... Indeed, if one were to make judgments on the [383 U.S. 413, 432] basis of speculation, one might guess that literature of the most pornographic sort would, in many cases, provide a substitute - not a stimulus - for antisocial sexual conduct. See Murphy, The Value of Pornography, 10 Wayne L. Rev. 655, 661 and n. 19 (1964). As I read the First Amendment, judges cannot gear the literary diet of an entire nation to whatever tepid stuff is incapable of triggering the most demented mind. The First Amendment demands more than a horrible example or two of the perpetrator of a crime of sexual violence, in whose pocket is found a pornographic book, before it allows the Nation to be saddled with a regime of censorship. 11 [383 U.S. 413, 433]...." i have found the u.s. supreme court to be most eloquent on issues such as the ones being discussed in this thread and others. this is an american website; it follows american custom and practice. i thought it'd be helpful to cite the eloquent comments from this institution - whether this case specifically deals with literature or not - as assistance in working through the real-world issues that are being debated here. thank you.
Thread: The TOS has been updated | Forum: Community Center
in 1973 miller vs.california, 413 US 15, dissenting justice douglas wrote on the application of "community standards:" We deal with highly emotional, not rational, questions. To many the Song of Solomon is obscene. I do not think we, the judges, were ever given the constitutional power to make definitions of obscenity. If it is to be defined, let the people debate and decide by a constitutional amendment what they want to ban as obscene and what standards they want the legislatures and the courts to apply. Perhaps the people will decide that the path towards a mature, integrated society requires that all ideas competing for acceptance must have no censor. Perhaps they will decide otherwise. Whatever the choice, the courts will have some guidelines. Now we have none except our own predilections. i'd urge that the TOS be tabled and further consideration be given to the final wording - not because of what it tries to do in specificity but because of the implications it holds for the further development of a "community" standard for a virtual environment of multiple standards and tastes.
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