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11 years ago
I'm not going to mention or criticize the way that FA is run or the decisions made by the administrators of the site. I'm sure you are all aware of how bad that's been lately. And if you don't know, just look at Fender's journal history.
I'm talking specifically about how 3D renders and screenshots are handled in the new AUP. This new AUP, updated last year, supposedly makes things shorter and easier to read, but unfortunately, it is very vague in several areas, and a lot of people disagree with the spirit of the rules there too. Basically, according to the AUP, if you didn't create EVERYTHING in the picture yourself from scratch, you might be in violation. That includes models and assets that you have bought and therefore have the right to use in creative works. Clearly that's not helpful. Some of you might have read the arguments on the FA forums regarding this matter.
This has held me back from uploading some of my favourite SL pictures, but I've decided I'm going to upload some anyway and hope that common sense prevails. I wouldn't be uploading something if I thought it was anything less than excellent, so don't worry about screenshot spam.
Wish me luck! And please share your opinions too.
RR.
I'm talking specifically about how 3D renders and screenshots are handled in the new AUP. This new AUP, updated last year, supposedly makes things shorter and easier to read, but unfortunately, it is very vague in several areas, and a lot of people disagree with the spirit of the rules there too. Basically, according to the AUP, if you didn't create EVERYTHING in the picture yourself from scratch, you might be in violation. That includes models and assets that you have bought and therefore have the right to use in creative works. Clearly that's not helpful. Some of you might have read the arguments on the FA forums regarding this matter.
This has held me back from uploading some of my favourite SL pictures, but I've decided I'm going to upload some anyway and hope that common sense prevails. I wouldn't be uploading something if I thought it was anything less than excellent, so don't worry about screenshot spam.
Wish me luck! And please share your opinions too.
RR.
One of the arguments on the forum thread detailing the changes to the AUP was that someone's renders got taken down and the reason given by the administrator was not to do with the content, but the fact that it was made using Source FilmMaker. Because apparently everything made in SFM is a TF2 screencap or something like that. As you can imagine, people were not amused, with comebacks such as 'Photoshop can be used to create child porn, so we must ban everything made in Photoshop too.'
Although in seriousness, I have some friends who have posted some SL pictures without moderation so, this might just come down to luck and how much staff cares.
You must remember that I had all my work deleted here so I endded closing my profile, few months later.
The worse that it was a writer administrator deleted all. Not even asked me if I made the work or not and somestuff had full snapshot with stuff made by me, including the background.
So I no care about this rules I don't use more FA and never going to use it again to post my work.