Before this turns into some dumb pile of speculation I'm going to end it.
There was a dispute about one of C.A.B.'s works on the forum. I felt it was within the forums rules, but was overruled on consideration by the entire moderation staff. So the piece was removed. We've always worked by committee and this was one time where my opinion didn't hold.
C.A.B. felt that if that work was not welcome here, then he was not either, and chose to exercise his right as copyright holder on all his work to have it removed. I did this, and he thanked me, and left.
So no, there were no problems with violence to women, or his politics, or that he was rude to a user who asked him to change one of his works. It came down to a direct conflict with our posting rules and how they were interpreted, and nothing more.
I heavily disagreed with this outcome and worked to maintain his presence. I failed.
I regret the loss of his work, his leadership as a member of the artistic community here, and the many other contributions he freely made here. The forums is less for his departure.
But that is how life is. Stupid oozes in and ruins shit.
Myriads
Except the rest of the moderation team didn't view it as stupid, or that said artwork fit within the forum's rules.
If it's over content from some of his posts, which given how things are, either we are talking underage characters or something more disturbing, then the fact that this forum has had zero leniency historically over those issues makes me glad a double standard precinct was not set simply because of how people viewed his contribution to the TMF.
Before this turns into some dumb pile of speculation I'm going to end it.
There was a dispute about one of C.A.B.'s works on the forum. I felt it was within the forums rules, but was overruled on consideration by the entire moderation staff. So the piece was removed. We've always worked by committee and this was one time where my opinion didn't hold.
C.A.B. felt that if that work was not welcome here, then he was not either, and chose to exercise his right as copyright holder on all his work to have it removed. I did this, and he thanked me, and left.
So no, there were no problems with violence to women, or his politics, or that he was rude to a user who asked him to change one of his works. It came down to a direct conflict with our posting rules and how they were interpreted, and nothing more.
I heavily disagreed with this outcome and worked to maintain his presence. I failed.
I regret the loss of his work, his leadership as a member of the artistic community here, and the many other contributions he freely made here. The forums is less for his departure.
But that is how life is. Stupid oozes in and ruins shit.
Myriads
Lot's of problems one encounters in running places like this are at their core piles of stupid.
Note that this was from a creator that has always taken great pains to never depict minors in their works, so it wasn't much of a stretch to take this content in that context also even before I watched the entire Disney Robin Hood film (Gods that sucked).
So like the end result, or hate it, it's done. And the above is the stupid path to that end.
Except he used Disney Princesses, Judy Jetson, and other Hanna Barbara cartoon characters that were underage in other artwork he has posted here, keeping their art style very much intact.
People have had work pulled for significantly less.
This was my issue when commenting on the Robin Hood rabbit. In the past, Kim Possible was a huge thing and a lot of fan artwork got deleted. She was a teen character but clearly underage and since aging is not allowed here, even with an "adult" body was removed.
Special rules for special members = pissed off regular users, accusations of favoritism and cliqueyness.
To give you a lot of slack, Myriads, you removed ONE of his pictures.....then he threw a hissy fit, deleted ALL of his stuff and left.
That's really immature.
People have had multiple posts deleted, threads locked, been banned from the politics forum...hell, producers have had their work pirated, yet all above still remained to contribute.
To give you a lot of slack, Myriads, you removed ONE of his pictures.....then he threw a hissy fit, deleted ALL of his stuff and left.
That's really immature.
People have had multiple posts deleted, threads locked, been banned from the politics forum...hell, producers have had their work pirated, yet all above still remained to contribute.
I just really doubt mods would go to the extent they have to research cabs possible pseudo child porn if it was a different artist drawing up half naked Kim possibles or hannah montanas. It's always been a no tolerance policy until someone's buddy and co artist was the one breaking rules.
Conflict of interest?