[richsails]

Originally Posted by openthe4thseal

The applicable rules are very clear:

4. DO NOT post or request photos & videos that are watermarked with another website's name or URL.
5. DO NOT post a picture with the watermark edited out in order to circumvent rule #4.

They do not say, "do not edit or crop watermarks." They say, "DO NOT post...."

Once you click REPLY, you own it, whether you did the editing or not.

In Rule 8, regarding underage material, it says, "If you're not sure of someone's age, don't post it." You should use that rule of thumb for all of your posts; meaning, if you're not sure if a photo is a pro or cropped, don't post it.

My take on this is that most of the people here have been surfing for porn for years, and after a certain amount of time, you should begin to get some sense of what it pure amateur, and what comes from a pro site like ILTB. I can only conclude that either people are oblivious or they just don't care, knowing the mods will clean up their messes.

When I sense something isn't right, I check it, and 95% of the time I'm right.

I'm getting to the point where I believe I've proven I know what I'm doing by taking my time to show all of you my "proof posts." Soon I will just start deleting with no proof and you'll all have to live with it without question.

Seal

What if we find a pic that was posted without watermarks a year ago and repost it. But unbeknownst to us one of the prolific sites (eg voyeurclouds or amateurcool grabbed it in the last 90 days and watermarked it as “their own”. If we exclude the clean photo, OCC might become a fraction of its former self. I think the intent of the rule is to discourage the POSTER from cropping the photo?

Can you please take this up with OCC Central Command to get clarity around the rule? Let us know what they say.

Rich