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DA'S DOUBLE-STANDARD

Tue Nov 25, 2008, 2:10 PM
  • Mood: Anger
So during the week, I decided to test something out and found photography that CLEARLY broke the rules. After acouple of days, DA comes back to tell me that my arguement was invalid. Oh whatever. So I decided to give DA my reply. Back to the Helpdesk we go:

So last week one of my images was removed for prohibited content which I feel did not break the rules in ANY way. By DA's posted rules which I read through many times basically says that if hands, toys, oral, or genitalia come into contact with genitalia, is prohibited. And on top of that, these parts must be SHOWN in the image to be considered prohibited.

The image I did only IMPLIED what was going on. But I DID NOT SHOW ANYTHING.

So I decided to do a test and found photography that clearly violated DA's rules:

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And to quote directly from DA's rules: "Masturbation - Hands should not come into contact with genitalia in a manner which is clearly a display of fondling or masturbation."


This image CLEARLY DEPICTS masterbation as one female sticks her hand down the other girl's underwear making contact with her vagina.

I recieved a note today saying the violation was invalid.

This is what I could argue as being invalid being that you cannot see the hand and vagina coming into contact. If this is the reason why, then that PROVES that my piece was also invalid to breaking the rules. You NEVER see anything coming into contact.

If this photo gets to stay up, then so should my piece. I find this to be absolutely unfair to me because not only was my piece of two males, but it was actual artwork and not real people.

I have asked you where exactly in the rules does it say I violated the rights to post my image, and still have not been shown. You guys constantly reply with a link to the prohibited contents rule, but no where in that particular rule is where it clearly states I broke the rules.

I am highly disappointed with how you are handling this.

Seriously, what rule have I violated that the photo does not?

Thanks DA for your double-standards.

-M

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=explosiv22 Nov 25, 2008, 2:15:07 PM
ugh i think they just dont want to listen ..

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*kuroitora Nov 25, 2008, 2:17:43 PM
give those guys boobs, and it'll be good to go. 9_9

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~GdorChaser13 Nov 25, 2008, 2:24:58 PM
Because dude! IT's two chicks making out! that's hawt. [/disgusted sarcasm]

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*strawberrygina Nov 25, 2008, 2:39:33 PM
Ugh. That photo is CLEARLY masturbation. They can label it "artistic nude" all they like. It doesn't make it any less likely that a piece like this would normally show up in Playboy -_-;

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~XCBDH Nov 25, 2008, 3:39:03 PM
Yeah, this is happening all over the place, and it seems to just get more and more whack. We need to start holding some hostages here, and get them to finally stop holding US hostage to these faulty rules!

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~ValliantCreations Nov 25, 2008, 3:40:32 PM
Huh. It doesn't surprise me, sadly. Eventually things like that happen on most massive sites (and in real life)... the people who set up the rules can't possibly handle all of the implementation of them, so they put people in charge who sometimes come in with a bias (people are people). Hopefully the reaction won't be hurt pride on their behalf - it gets in the way of a fair review of the implementation of their rules. I'm sure you're not the only one getting the bad-end of a broken system. Unfortunately DA isn't a democracy, so we can't vote out the people making the bad decisions. *le sigh*

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~Demon-Elf Nov 25, 2008, 7:58:59 PM
See, this was what I was talking about last time. This guy's a 'big popular guy' so he gets to break the rules while minor infraction (and I'm not saying it was an infraction at all, really.) calls down the wrath of god. It's like freakin' elementary school around here. Speaking from personal experience, I have to say it's exactly like that. I was a good kid, got severely punished for doing relatively minor things while the kids that would be harassing me and kicking the crap out of me would get off scott free.


That's not even the worse one I've seen on here. As someone said on one of them, Deviantart, your source for porn. I have to say, it is frustrating to have my works share the site with fetish porn and alike. It cheapens us all...Well, I'm officially going to start fighting the man here, come hell or high water.

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~sasjhwa Nov 26, 2008, 5:25:20 PM
Maybe you should re-illustrate your drawing only with women but in the exact same pose. See if that gets banned.

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