Sign "The Acceptance of Nudity on Photobucket" Petition!

[cityrose]

Well guys, I have had enough of Photobucket's "No Nudity" policy. I find Photobucket to be an excellent hosting service in every other regard, but find this one policy chafing. I'm sure there are other artists out there who would benefit from Photobucket allowing artistic nudity on their website.

I decided to create my very first petition.

Please sign the petition if you agree with what's written there, and spread the word! If you are a member of any other online art communities, or own a blog, please share this petition.

http://www.petitiononline.com/accnudph/petition.html

Thank you everyone!

~Belinda

[Flake]

Or, you could just use Flickr, Imageshack, the CA attachment manager (for posts on here), MSN groups, Blogger, Wordpress, DA or get your own hosting for about 20 quid a year?

Photobucket is hardly the only hosting service out there. Vote with your feet.

[Nam]

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[cityrose]

Thank you for commenting! I've tried out other image hosting services, and their user interfaces always have limitations against Photobucket, or are clunky (for me) to use at best. My preference has always been Photobucket. I will be buying my own webspace, but for the time being I'm using online image hosting.

I created this petition because I'm constantly seeing artists protesting against this policy (if I didn't think I would get signatures, I wouldn't have written the petition). I thank you guys for your comments, but I'm hoping to draw the attention mainly of those who are interested in the petition! ;)

Cheers!

[Black Spot]

I had problems with them a few months ago and contacted them about removing my life drawings. They backed down and restored them, but I deleted them anyway. It was too much hassle if it was going to happen again.

[HunterKiller_]

The problem is that if Photobucket does allow 'nudity', people are going to abuse it.
'Nudity' is a very broad term.

[cityrose]

If they allow nudity in general, I understand that would open up the can of worms. There have been other (gallery, not hosting) websites however that have successfully outlined and implemented rules for submitting artistic nudity only.

I think the Photobucket team needs to get their 'thinking caps' on. Even if they create a subdomain (Photobucket Exposed!) for these images.......

Thanks for the comments!

[FlameDragon]

I'm not sure about Imageshack either, they've taken down some of my images

[Psychotime]

Photobucket Exposed!

...lolz.

[Jason Rainville]

I'm not sure about Imageshack either, they've taken down some of my images

Usually you have to censor unless you somehow fall through the cracks. Naked lady, no nipples, no bum or vag, taken down as 'porn.' Not nudity, not explicit material, PORN. How the hell is a lady seen from the side with no nipples porn?

For uploading nudes I only trust CA.

[cityrose]

That is irritating. The same thing happens with all of my clay sculptures. No nipples, no vag, no bum crack. Why is it still explicit? If I censor the areas where the nipples or crack *would* be, then Photobucket allows it. What kind of stupid rule is that? Those areas are ALREADY CENSORED because I haven't even sculpted them!

[paramnesia]

I'm not arguing for Photobucket's side or anything, but keep in mind that online petitions do little good. They make us feel good, like we're doing something, but little else. Maybe there was a story of a large online site listening to an online petition I don't know about though. Even real pen and paper petitions aren't the miracle creators of social change. A million signatures does demonstrate popular opinion, but how many are votes or, in this case, paying customers. Electronic petitions, meanwhile, have even less impact and accountability. A person's signature is more or less unique, but online the same person can easily sign multiple times under various aliases.

As Flake said, the best way to pressure Photobucket to change is to vote with your feet and encourage others to do so as well especially Pro users. Quite honestly, unless you have a significant amount of sway, a non paying user is not of as much value to places like Photobucket as a paying customer. But you ought to also research and provide people with alternatives. Show them the grass is greener elsewhere, then send to Photobucket a polite email or snail mail explaining your grievances and ask others to do so as well.

But in the end you best bet for a site that won't restrict you is to purchase your own webspace with a host allows adult content.