I dunno. I haven't had the urge to take a photo in a long time. And I can never get myself to draw anymore.

This site just isn't what it used to be when I signed up. When I signed up, the artistic nudes were actually artistic. Over the years I have accepted the argument that just because someone can't take a good artistic nude photo, doesn't make it porn. It doesn't make sense to hold the artistic nudes on this site to a higher standard of art than every other genre! But the fact that so many rules have been deleted that allows softcore porn to be uploaded... The fact that even when pictures obviously break the policies here, they are ignored (and yes, some of these pictures are deemed to break policy once reported enough times. So it isn't even a matter of prudes reporting it because they are prudes. It is DA ignoring it until enough people complain!).

The fact tracing is allowed, and little recourse to complain! Even when so many members of the community were upset and even offered a vote on solutions, their cries were ignored! Because banning tracing would damage subscription sales. Few people that don't like tracing will leave the site. But the people that trace would leave the site if it weren't allowed. Not to mention the number of artists that are banned and have their ORIGINAL art take down when the ART THIEF reports the original!

The fact every freakin' time since I have been a member of the site, the admins NEVER consult the community before making drastic changes to policies or pages. It seems like the admins just don't care if the members of the community (the people freakin' paying the bills for this site!) are happy AT ALL. What kind of company just tells its customer to stop being whining pricks? Even when the vast majority of the complainers are being perfectly respectful? How is this even remotely acceptable?

I dunno. A part of me wants to stay for no other reason than I like the forums here. And that maybe someday I will upload my anime art. But another part of me really just wants to find another art site where at least they can be UPFRONT with whether porn can be submitted or not. It's not even the porn that even bothers me, so much as the fact the site's rules say it shouldn't be here. So why is it here? Why bother having the rules in the first place? I just want to know what I can expect from an artsite when I sign up. And DA just doesn't leave up to what it says it will do! Or it just changes the rules to make it easier to do... Well, I'm not even sure what the admins do anymore. They aren't deleting porn. They aren't deleting doll bases made by other artists. Or screenshots of games. Or tracing. So what are they doing?


I dunno. I have to go write an exam now. So I'll be back to rant a bit more in a bit!