I've been lurking around the 'Archive' for years, but only just recently started submitting stories and even more recently registered so as to participate in the discussion boards.

No doubt this question (see title) has been discussed endlessly in the past, but for newbies like me it would be good to get the scooty on why we don't see more pictures in this site? I doubt there would be a huge amount of interest in actual sugery events and outcomes, etc. - kind of grusome, that - but there might be some interest in even those.

But what I'm talking about are erotic pictures, drawings, photo's, and 'photoshopped' photo's. There's one of the latter in one member's ID page showing a naked guy and a naked girl holding hands, and him absent his genitals. That was no doubt photoshopped and I have hundreds of photo's like it, balls but no dick, part of a dick, no balls, no balls and no dick, etc., etc., and I'm sure other members have same. So what's with no pictures? If they've been photoshopped the've been modified, and if they've been modified any copyright is void (i.e. all 'art' is derivative), so what's the big deal?

The "big deal" is bandwidth. As a penniless volunteer orginization whose presence is partially based on the use of another's servers we are very tight about costs. Also, the maintence of such a large number of files along with the approving and policing of them would be well beyond the capacity of our staff. --FLO--

The other reason is we are not willing to spend loads more time checking photos before allowing them up. This place takes enough time as it is.

sensenbender (imported) wrote: Sun Jul 11, 2010 11:37 am But what I'm talking about are erotic pictures, drawings, photo's, and 'photoshopped' photo's. There's one of the latter in one member's ID page showing a naked guy and a naked girl holding hands, and him absent his genitals. That was no doubt photoshopped and I have hundreds of photo's like it, balls but no dick, part of a dick, no balls, no balls and no dick, etc., etc., and I'm sure other members have same. So what's with no pictures? If they've been photoshopped the've been modified, and if they've been modified any copyright is void (i.e. all 'art' is derivative), so what's the big deal?

You can always post your pictures to a newsgroup and post a message on the archive telling users what newsgroup you used and the file names of the pictures. I think these newsgroups would be appropriate:

alt.binaries.pictures.grotesque

alt.tasteless.penis

alt.binaries.eunuch

See here (http://www.eunuch.org/main/index.php?special=Donations). If text only we use 300 gigabytes of bandwidth, then adding photos the occupied band would grow beyond our imagination. And so does the cost. And servers need to store the images. And...

And as soon as a server for photos was in place, if we could pull it off, some asshole would no doubt upload pics of kids and we'd be in the proverbial soup.

Case closed!