"I've seen more hallucinating/paranoia here than I ever did during my acid phase. "
LOL!!!!

No, its true, Tamela isn't at daz - my mistake. I could have sworn I saw her stuff somewhere else. Maybe 3d commune then.
At any rate, Im really curious as to what happend...

Wow - these are some pretty harsh statements (even for me) - when did this all start? And what started it?

I believe Tamela is at DAZ.
As for skin textures I've always loved Morris and Danae' Millan is a good texture - just a little weak in the makeup dept (for my tastes anyway).
Im not aware of the issues between Morris and Tamela  - other than Tamela always telling me that Morris uses her textures.
Would someone care to elaborate?

Good point Tiari and thanks for the compliment.

I wasn't blaming the mods only (they could offer their input and suggest other alternatives - Im not saying they aren't doing this however) - I blame rendo as a whole.

I wasn't aware of the grandfather clause, and I completely understand. I also agree with you in that these are the rules of renderosity. However my problem is thus:

1. The is obviously a great deal of complaint over the thumbnail policy. To what great harm is there to modify them in order to allow for putting clothes in the thumbnail. The intial hair up my ass was that with my picture Rhapsody (which has been pulled until a newer thumb can be provided) I wanted to convey the image as fully intended. The picture consisted of a woman riding a winged horse sweeping down over the ocean where a group of dolphins were playing and splashing about. I was pissed because I was forced to put in a typical gallery headshot and I felt cheated. I think one of the mods told me that its a misrepresentation of the image - what bullshit!. If I show a headshot with a nudity tag or a painted thumbnail with a nudity tag - BOTH don't give an accurate representation.
   I agree with various posters that there are some poser artists that portray unrealstic images, but if that is there thing - then god bless 'em. My work is a far cry from that and its unfair that the masses get penilized for the few. But again, I understand there are rules in place. What I DON'T  understand is their absolute refusal to be open to other options and the somewhat anal, arrogant stance of some of the mods. Most of whom are untalented hacks. As we used to say in art school - "those who can...do, those who can't preach"

I can attest to acadia...after my bitching and reposting of my thumb which I clearly painted a bikini on to cover the breasts on Rhapsody - I was banned for 3 days like some isolent fucking child.
The nazi mods then went through my gallery and removed 5 or 6 images which they deemd in violation of the TOS. Further to that, I was informed that one more violation would result in my permanent ban from rendo.

So the gallery has been changed from cropped images of boobs and crotches to thumbs of fairys and fractals....
Ill take the crotches in my face anyday.
Pun intended.

Acadia -  the reason why im pissed is because in order to show Rhapsody to its full effect - i.e - on a grand scale with the clouds, ocean, winged horse and dolphins. I can't crop the image to represent it that way. The woman is secondary. The woman for a change (as per my usual images) is not important. With my other pinup work if I can crop it without altering the image. Ill do it. But in this case I simply couldn't do it.
Im further pissed because this is a bullshit rule. It is needless and restrictive. They don't want nudity in the thumb - fine - I can live with that. However allow the artist some room to move.
How the hell is it misleading? If I tag the image with nudity - there is going to be nudity! You don't want to see nudity - to click on my bloody image.
This altering of the thumbnail rule needs to change. It blows.
And Stormchaser, thanks for the compliment.

And that is why the TOS is full of shit! In saying that I can't represent the picture in its purest sense because I can't have the picture nude and have it faithfully represented with a thumb. The fairest and reasonable way to serve both parties is to allow my to edit the thumb. How is that hurting anyone?
By painting on a bikini top - no one is offended by the nipples - and for the record THERE ARE NO NIPPLES IN MY THUMB. And I get to show the picture in a grand scale.
Asking me to paint the picture I envisioned with a top and bottom on merely to allow me to show it fully in a thumbnail is crazy - I'd rather delete my gallery and go elsewhere.  And rendo can satisfy themselves with their hug clubs and endless pictures of cutsy pie fairys.

I can take the TOS with a grain of salt and abide by the no nudity or violence in the thumb. But now this is just getting anal and needless censorship.

Sorry Dvlenk6 - we WERE saying the same thing. I agree with you 100%

Dvlenk6 - your comment of quality vs # of comment rating is purely coincidental - surely you are joking. Renderosity is riddled with hug clubs. I've seen some great pieces of work get overlooked because they simply don't comment on others work. Look at the art charts. As the fixer so eloquently put it - "same old tired shite" and he's right. But that is the way it is and I can live with it.
However Rhapsody put me in a dilemma because in order for me to show the full theme of the picture - the winged horse and the dolphins I had to show more of the picture than just her bloody head. In oder to do that I had to cover her breasts. Fine - no problem. But it still gets pulled because I painted on a bikini - so where is the middle ground? The TOS is unfairly skewed.
Stormchaser and thefixer just had the balls to say what everyone else knows. The hug clubs get the most comments because by commenting on one of their picture ensures you get a comment on yours.
...and I thougth I left highschool cliques behind me...

Fixer - thanks for that tip. What a pain in the ass to see all the items that we should have got for free anyway.