No problems with the "edit button here."
Thanks for the changes.--Denny
Buon lavoro, bye :)
Also I feel VERY STRONGLY as a paid member that moderators need to put their money where their mouth is ie being a PAYING MEMBER and an active participant as far as uploading artwork and interacting with others on the discussion boards. Politicians and other authority figures are supposed to be active in their communities and not just showing up to take names and ban offenders. Anybody who wants to moderate needs to have a balanced attitude especially when it comes to banning images. I have taken issue with the kinds of images being posted sometimes but I would never IMPOSE my personal beliefs on others. I would hope that moderators would have an open mind about images especially involving artwork of figures.
Steph - The reason why HTML is not allowed on our message boards (and for most message boards on the net) is because if someone knows what they are doing, they can really mess up the website. Someone can use HTML to put viruses on your computer, install spyware, change your computer settings, mess up the look and feel of ArtWanted.com and many other malicious things. For this reason, most boards on the net do not allow their users to type HTML directly into a post. Live codes are different then allowing all HTML to be input into a message. We would like to add live codes to our boards at a future date.--------- End quote
I would just love to know where you got that idea from, because 9 out of ten sites that I visit allow html, and banning it in a forum does not stop viruses, spyware etc, that is the bigest load of hogwash that I have ever heard.........
Didn't you know that hackers use you url, and spyware infests just by being on a site that is infected. And most of it comes from sites with adverts..... You must think that because we are artists that we know nothing about how things work to believe that......
Oh and one more thing Andy!!! I have not forgotten, if you want really bad pornagraphic art, just look at some art where the models are not nude.
This one for instance, the onbly thing between her being nude and dressed is the colour of her skin and a belt!
Thread is saved............
We are not saying that if we block HTML in our forums, you will not get a virus on your computer. We are just saying that by allowing HTML in a forum, a programmer can put an invisible virus/malware/script into a thread and have it start infecting our members computers without them knowing. Someone could introduce virus to all our members with a little know how. Our staff belongs to dozens of websites and almost all of them block HTML. It looks like we don't belong to the same message boards you belong to, but to help protect our members and our own website from malicious members, we have disabled this function. This small inconvenience is for the protection of all our members. This is not a new rule, we have always had this rule, there were just ways to get around it before.
Currently we don't have a policy against 'skin tight' clothing. We also realize that there are thousands of images that are still on our site that should be removed. As we find them, or they are reported to us, they will be removed.
But now do I need to add a belt to my models to make you look at them differently? After all there is as much detail in my paintings as there are in that one, and you can see the womans nipple in that painting! It's obscene, the nipples nor anything else show in my paintings.
i fear Daisy is right and we haven't seen the end of the issues that got us to this point, but believe that if you apply your rules more evenhandedly and there is some transparency to your decisions and mods, as well as DISCUSSION regarding same, things should flow more smoothly in the future.
We know you could lose the GD boards altogether and not miss a beat with the vast majority of your membership. AW has gone to great pains to make an art 'community' here, but failed to become a part of it, itself....passing judgements and issuing disciplines and punishments with no rhyme or reason, anonymously from on high, but your new avatar tells me that may be changing too...coming down from the mountain to participate in your 'neighborhood' is what makes communities work. Here's to a friendlier, more open and active engagement between 'labor' and 'management'! CHEERS!
But I do prefer that most of the boards are private, especially the critiques. I mean who wants then to see how we struggle sometimes?
I just want a honest staff who I can go back to respecting again!!!
I agree with Steph.
Your banning of Stephs art was purile and childish to everyone "except" yourselves.
Like has been said "I just want an honest staff who I can go back to respecting again!!!"
How can respect flourish when the post I made that you took out (you should remember it, it was a screenshot of your own randoms with a photographic nude with huge "lungs") yet Steph has had her work trashed.
I asked "Why can't the same methods used to FIND Steph be employed to root out the other genuine rules breaking art ????"
If you can find Steph within hours of posting, then you can "definately" find the other nudes within the 6months they have been here.
You are without doubt using "discretion" to impose the rules. I find it incomprehensible that you use your powers randomly, that effectively supports the wrong doing of some, yet on a whim use it equally "without recourse" to do as is seen fit to others.
Your actions are very often "unbalanced" obviously unbalanced and biased. I'm sorry that this comes over as a rant to you guys, but such is the TRUTH.
There is NO excuse for the post I made.
Recap: you allowed your own random engine to post a photographic nude, yet used your moderator discretions to very quickly remove the mildest of THE most mild nude art forms.
You let my "marjorie post" run. This had nudes in from 1950's still life sessions. You saw the post and let it run. It was educational and historical.
Stephs work was mild in the farthest extremes.
I enclose said deleted screenshot lest it was NOT seen.
PS Stephs nude issue is NOT a "private issue" between the whole site of AW and 1 lady, it is a very public issue. You publicly removed her work and used flimsy excuses for this.
Take care, Ex-Laz
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