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Recently, DA set it so only users 18 and over can view mature content. I find this funny becuase a majority of DA's users are UNDER 18. LOLZ?

I think it was fine the way they had it, because seriously, people should have enough maturity to view what they can handle, and use their own personal discretion as to what they click or what they don't click. Plus, they had those little (-) MATURE CONTENT thumbnails if you wanted.

But, I really don't have a problem with them doing that at all. It doesn't effect me, minors are supposed to be protected from that stuff anyway, and ontop of that, some of the "artistic nude" that people post I personally don't believe is artistic nude at all.

Not everyone feels this way, but it's just how I feel about the subject. I have alot of respect for artistic nude photography, and I think alot of it is truely beautiful, as I think the human body can be a beautiful thing. But I don't hold respect for the pieces and/or artists that just portray genetalia or erotic poses and themes just to do it, like close up shots of a woman's ass or her legs spread with her vagina in your face, or two women in a shower making out naked with their hands in each other's crotches. I could go to any porn sight and look at that. Okay, I won't pick on all the lesbian photos -- some photos of two women in what can be considered erotic or sexual poses have been done artistically and actually look like art and not porn, but most of them i've seen are not. But this also brings up the funny thing that most non-artistic "artistic nude" (aka porno shots), are mostly of women. DA seems to like to throw out the ones of the men alot. Not that I'm complaining, becuase I don't think I'd want to see those anyway. No more porn plz, I don't care what gender.

I could keep going but I wont. If you read any of that, congrats to you, you just lost 10 IQ points! But what's your view on it? The whole artistic nude thing? What do you think about the artistic nude on this site, etc?

But anyway. Just my little rant on DA, since I don't voice my opinion much here and this wasn't fitting of any other place to rant since its.. well, about DA. I seem to have this slight fear of updating my journal in fear of people getting to know me, I don't know why. Because I'm really not that interesting and I don't want you all to figure that out AHAHA and I'm really really really bad with communication, I'm socially inept and a pretty bad recluse irl sometimes (i feel guilty for that, oops), and I fail at getting back to comments alot. So.. yeah. um. .. yeah. my apologies, forgive me.

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:iconsambees:
I think it's silly. I used to have mature warning shit in my gallery that had nothing to do with nudity. It's funny that a bunch of the underage artists can no longer see their OWN artwork in their galleries because they gave it a 'mature content' label. I think this new system will be counter productive, I will no longer be labeling my shit with 'mature warning' if it means 80% of my watchers can't see it. Many many others will be doing this as well.

Oh the lulz.
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:iconpensri:
i think its kinda stupid because sometimes its just drawings... and i usually avoid photos with the mature content whatever blablabla why do you have to be 18? i think its anoying... sometimes theres some really popular photos or drawings thats marked with the mature content thing and i CANT SEE THEM!!! and then theres comments like FUCKING AWSOME!!! and then you want to see the picture and it like GARRRHHHH...........
and blablabla...
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:iconpgthegreat13:
You took all my IQ...:cries:

I don't really care about this, mostly because I am 18, so I can view all the gorey nekkidz I want to. P:
But I remember when I had parental controls on AOL (curse it to Hell), I'd get really frustrated because it'd block most deviations marked as mature, and even ones that just had swear words in the description/comments. So I can understand why some minors are all pissy about it.

BUT. dA probably did it because some sort of legal thing could be blamed on them. "My child saw naked, gory people on your website and then he killed his baby sister!!" "ORLY?" "Yes, and now I'm suing you for a gamillion dollars because I'm an upper-class, white, American bitch-whore." "Crap." So I don't blame dA.
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:iconkiusa:
~kiusa Oct 12, 2007  Student Traditional Artist
THAT BIRD OF YOURS ( ? ) IS TOO CUET
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:iconfresh4u:
BIRD SAYS THANK YOU 8< ♥
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:iconkiusa:
~kiusa Oct 21, 2007  Student Traditional Artist
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:iconhystericritic:
1.) Some artists tag things that might be offensive but aren't really mature by the normal standards, like, for example, drawings/photos that have to do with homosexuality. (Namely, people who draw shounen-ai and want to reduce the risk of getting flamed.) I'm annoyed that I can't see that stuff because it might be offensive and is just a precautionary measure.

2.) Violence vs. nudity is a completely different ball game. Mature content for blood and whatnot should at least be visible or under a different filter (something they're working on too, I think) since it's not violating any rights, really. Unless the person is bloody and naked...

3.) There's blatant nudity and then there's subtle nudity; I think there should be a distinction between those things too. (Ex. The daily deviation a while back with a completely nude chick in a cage-esque thing, but the shadows were so cleverly placed that you couldn't see anything... But I bet that's unviewable to minors now.)
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:iconchopsoy:
oh yeah , there's kind of a ruckus going on here on da about this. i dont realy disagree with the restrains, but i think either over 16, or just under 16 would be blocked and over 16 could view but with the warning.
maybe they were afraid of some "improper use of the website for minors" or smtgh... it could be nasty thing if they had to close da over it... specially over acusations envolving minors and aledgly over18 contents..
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:icondavidjcobb:
My view on the Mature Content age limit is that it's BS anyway -- some deviations are marled MC for blood or violence, and most teenagers are perfectly mature enough to view those, but now they can't. If they're gonna impose a viewing limit on MC, then they should allow artists to select what KIND of Mature Content their deviation contains -- blood, violence, nudity, etc.
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:iconsyngnathidas:
I read a good point on this somewhere, that dA shouldnt have anything submitted thats of such an extreme nature under 18's cant look at it. With the odd exception (which has been inevitably removed by admins), I haven't seen anything on this site which anyone over the age of 16 shouldn't be looking at. Anything really graphic or sexual gets removed anyway, so I don't see that point in this block.
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