Are these photos unaltered or photoshopped?

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*sigh*

What have I already told you about this?


Here is an extract from Kotchanski's post in http://www.lpsg.org/238628-revision-in-the-lpsg-rules.html :I know you're new here and I don't like being a Nagging Nancy, but sometimes these things need to be explained.....again.

I'm going to reinforce this with you Willow.

Also, asking others to speculate on whether this member is posting fake pics or not could get the other members into trouble as well. It sets a bad precedent. The member posting the pics may not be trying to fool anyone - they may be real or satirizing the site theme. It's the public questioning that has gotten other members into trouble.
 

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*sigh*

What have I already told you about this?

Here is an extract from Kotchanski's post in http://www.lpsg.org/238628-revision-in-the-lpsg-rules.html :I know you're new here and I don't like being a Nagging Nancy, but sometimes these things need to be explained.....again.

I'm going to reinforce this with you Willow.

Also, asking others to speculate on whether this member is posting fake pics or not could get the other members into trouble as well. It sets a bad precedent. The member posting the pics may not be trying to fool anyone - they may be real or satirizing the site theme. It's the public questioning that has gotten other members into trouble.

The rule mainly deals with and originated out of people "gender" faking or using stolen pics... not because of people photoshopping or using shopped pics. "Validity of a member's images" means whether or not they are stolen, not whether or not they are altered.

Although, like Pecker said:

Our current policy on photoshopping is to let it stand as long as it isn't being used to deceive the membership. We feel the poster is more to be pitied than punished.

As for questioning such things, you are strongly advised to report your suspicions to a moderator via the Report key or PM/email than to bring it up for public discussion on the board.

It is strongly advised that you report someone for anything that seems suspicious. "Deceive the membership" in the sense of claiming to be someone who you are not - not claiming you are 11x7 and posting up a photoshopped pic.

That being said, I think it's pretty clear that they aren't talking about saying that someone's photos seem altered or not. That's not the same as saying that someone isn't who they say they are, along the lines of that of gender faking or stolen pictures. In this case, the person is just saying that they are using "altered" pics, not stolen ones.

It would be similar to someone saying, "Hey guys I'm super rich!" and someone's response being, "No, you're not super rich!". Then people saying that the naysayer should be warned/banned for accusing them of not being rich when they said they were. Again, not at all the same as accusing someone of gender faking or using stolen pics.
 
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I suspect it is the behaviour of starting threads singling out individual members for scrutiny that is most likely to get the OP into trouble, as it seems to be viewed as harassment.

I also think Kotch's post re questioning 'validity of images and the likes' does apply here. At least I can't see why it wouldn't *shrug*
 
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I understand what you're saying, but what I'm saying is that it isn't the fault of the person posting the pics - it's the problem with the person questioning the pics.

If it's ok to question the pics, then why can't the OP create a thread in Etc saying "Shopped or Not" so all these threads can be in one place instead of accumulating here?

If it's not against the TOS, then it's not. So it should be ok.
 

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I understand what you're saying, but what I'm saying is that it isn't the fault of the person posting the pics - it's the problem with the person questioning the pics.

If it's ok to question the pics, then why can't the OP create a thread in Etc saying "Shopped or Not" so all these threads can be in one place instead of accumulating here?

If it's not against the TOS, then it's not. So it should be ok.

Yeah I understand what you're saying as well. I'm not exactly sure if that would be against the ToS.

I think it coud be considered harassment passed a certain point if it was done over and over again concerning a single member (like redz mentioned).

I suspect it is the behaviour of starting threads singling out individual members for scrutiny that is most likely to get the OP into trouble, as it seems to be viewed as harassment.

I also think Kotch's post re questioning 'validity of images and the likes' does apply here. At least I can't see why it wouldn't *shrug*

Mods can correct me if I'm wrong, but I always took the 'validity of images' part to mean "if it's really them or not" (i.e. posting up pictures of someone else and claiming it to be you) and not questioning if something is altered or not.
 
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Several reports have been sent to the moderators regarding these threads. (Which have been merged) The moderators do no get involved with discussions of photoshopped or altered photographs. We would like to request that this discussion does not continue on the open board.
 
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