@kurth @mira I'm not taking it for granted I certainly greatly respect all of the work and effort that people are putting in to create and maintain such a huge and long-running and well respected project as deviant but I don't think that means that their choices in policies are above criticism and I'm honestly confused as to why you would think so. Just because it's being provided for free doesn't mean one can't criticize what's being done, the whole idea of beggars can't be choosers is actually an extremely conservative, reactionary idea — it's the core of the idea that since your ancestors or society or whatever provides so much for you you can't possibly critique it or suggest improvements to it.