nickdemarco wrote:I don't like to argue with fellow pbasers but I really hope those running this site pay little attention to the cranky calls to ban certain galleries because they feature nudes.
While Trinko seems to actually favor an exclusion from 'Popular Galleries'
feature (which Slug apparently already has as a policy for, though it
seems applied only if a gallery is noticed), Trinko proposes the
identification and category scheme most of us think is worth supporting
and this would include nudes for audiences that select an option that
includes that.
This is somewhat tricky to program well and the bandwidth that would
ensue for the nudes would be somewhat costly as we all know, which
*in other public galleries is offset by a lot of advertising* on the top of
those galleries and to the side of them. Many of us are here due to the
lack of ads that pay for such things.
Question becomes, do photographers and audience want to pay for that
bandwidth? Some, like Ray, say they'd pay a premium. As for the
audience, hard to say what the revenue necessary would be.
The tricky aspects are the programming and then how much is needed
from photogs and audience to make it feasible.
nickdemarco wrote:Rarely have a read such prurient and puritanical claptrap. Such nonsense should be kept for cranky Christian sites not artistic ones. As someone else said, would these same cranks ban Michealangelo, Titian and so many of the great artists who celebrated the human body by depicting it in its full nakedness.
Apparently some of them would ban even those, as this shot below and
the entire subgallery it was in (mainly tourist shots of Florence) was not
included in Search here for a long time until I requested pbase investigate
why.
It wasn't because it takes awhile for these things to show up, since
my newer galleries were already in the search engine but not this one
which had gone up earlier.
They've fixed that (maybe until the next complaint).
At any rate, these threads are dominated, actually, by those who
want nude subgalleries re-included in the Popular Galleries
features after mgmt apparently took them out. And those affected
rightfully want consistent application of any such policy, if the
policy must exist.
If mgmt is watching, maybe eventuallly we will get what most ask for,
some kind of tagging system and then will come some way for pbase
to recoup the bandwidth costs this would entail for those who would like
to enjoy presenting and exploring various nude galleries, whether
artistic or not (since that is in the eye and mind of beholders and
impossible for any mgmt to decide with much validity).