Hello - I figured I would share my opinion on the subject just so everyone understands what I'm thinking on the subject.

First I wanted to say that I think the pictures that were linked to here were very nice pieces of art. The problem that I see is where do you draw the line to what is art and what is "porn". For example, I have a page of naked girls who were painted on to create works of art. Since it includes nudity, I'm carefull on who sees these pictures so I won't post a link in public. But would something like be acceptable since it is art? Lets take an extreme example, I strip down and take a picture of myself naked. I call it art. Is it? The problem is where do you draw the line on the public board. For that reason, I personally feel it is almost beter to say "no nudity" at all then to have to try to determine where the line is between what is art and what is not.

The second reason I'm concerned is that all public boards on BrainKing are searchable from the outside (non-members). This incudes search engines like Google, and "bad site" blocker sites. [I'm going to use a worse-case senerio] Lets say one of the "bad site" blocker sites decided to scan BrainKing to make sure the site was acceptable, and came across a link to a site which contains nude pictures. Since some of these program are very picky, they may end up putting BrainKing on their blocked site list - which in turn may be a program used by ISP's or work of some of the players, which in turn may lose them access to this game site. Again, I'm using a worse-case type of example, but is another reason why I would worry if links to nude pictures would be allowed on a public board.

Those are my opinions on the subject

gekrompen hoofd: The point is that this website is a game site. It is not an art site. It is not a debate site. The discussion boards are here to add a "bonus" to the game playing experiance.

ALL sites on the internet are privately owned, why would that need to be in the user agreement? Everyone who opens a site on the internet buys a domain name, and makes their own site. It should be common knowledge that all sites on the internet are privatly owned.

Yes, this site is reserved for an elite select few - those few are the ones which make an account on this site. You, me, and all other on this site are part of the elite few. But since it is a private site, it has rules. The rules apply to EVERYONE on the site. Let me repeat that. The same rules apply to EVERYONE on the site. No one is being singled out - everyone on this site is expected to follow the same rules. If they do not like the rules, they are always welcomed to leave and find another privatley owned site which will allow them to do what they want to do.

gekrompen hoofd: I think if someone wanted to post a picture of Michaelangelo's David in a public place like a museum would be OK, but if you tried to take that photo to a private place like McDonalds (or private game site like this one), then that would be up to the owner of the McDonalds or private site of what should be allowed to be shown in their own private place.

Freedoms that are hinted at in your post have no place in a privatly owned place. (And BrainKing is still privatly owned and operated.)