'Luc 68''s blog

It took me a week writing many emails back and forth with Iper staff - but I managed to get back online here.

First I was asked to remove some pictures on a teen group, for Iper staff was under the impression these pictures were of underage girls. Now I can argue about that, but since they make the rules you only have 2 options: comply or quit. And quitting was not an option, yet.

After deleting these pictures, there was another request. I had to delete a complete album of a 22yo FULLY CLOTHED girl (ok, sometimes there was a peek of underwear...), and a picture of 2 girls in bikini, painting eachother. I argued both were legal pictures, but it was again either comly or quit.

So again, I gave in. After all, what small offer it was to delte a handfull of pictures to get full access to this community again?

But even this was not enough. I received this message:

nude contents featuring models under the age of 18, and most generally contents depict these individuals in a ‘sexually driven’ manner such as posing in lingerie or displaying a sexually suggestive or provocative pose, are strictly forbidden

I have and had NO pictures of underage girls in any of the above mentioned poses or situations, but at the end I saw no alternative then to delete any picture containing any nudity whatsoever.

However, I urge you all to review your own pictures, for I am pretty sure these rules apply to many of your pictures too.

To everyone who added me since thursday the 15th, please add me again, because for some stupid reason I deletad all received messages, and therefore lost all those invitations.

In the light of some recent events this last week, considering icons, groups and pictures, I have decided to review the permissions on all my content.

I have read to many blogs and contributions that make me think there is a new puritan wind blowing here on iper. Lots of friends had their accounts suspended for an icon showing nothing illegal, or even had to take down a whole collection of pictures, all for some very dark reasons. I even have seen that members comment on eachother's pics of being unwanted or illegal, yet have even more dirty stuff on their own account. I try to keep away from those contacts as far as possible.

To avoid getting into trouble with new members and Ipernity staff, I have changed the permissons to all pictures containing people to friends and family, and the ones showing any sign of nudity whatsoever are for family only. I also cleaned up my contact list, deleting people with no contributions at all or several months old, and changing the stauts of some to fam, others to friends.

I am sorry, but I don't want to loose this account, and all the friends I have made on Iper just because some asshole wants to block or report me for having something he or she does not want to see.

I have uploaded over 700 pictures up till now, but some albums are hardly ever opened or looked at. I don't mind, I have uploaded a lot of pictures because I like them.

But I would like to know waht YOU want, what do you want me to upload for you? I can even make it a special album....

And if you don't want to write it here in my blog, you can alwys send me a message.

As i returned from my (well earned) holiday, I had about 20 group invitations.

However, as I tried to accept the invitations to these groups, I noticed that after joining the icon for joining remained on the page.

When I clicked some of the items, i got a notice telling me I had no acces right to the discussion or item.

Can anyone tell me what is wrong? Is there a max to the number of groups you can join, or what?

YES, I made it! 1000+ visits within a month after joining!

Now let's see if I can make it to the 3+ favourites so I can add something to Cindy's group....

Ok....... I have made my first group. Since I had seen several pictures on my friends streams with girls wearing shirts containig messges like "they are real" "bitch" or other catchy texts, I thought it might be nice to start a group with this theme. Or was there one already? Anyway, if you have seen anything that might fit the group, or have something you want to share, please join and add it!

Sadly it is diffcult to see what your contact level is on Ipernity. This was a thing that Flick took better care of. So I added 3 pictures, availability epends on your contact level. (seen it with another member). Maybe an idea for others?

And another thing: you can add me as a contact, or maybe more, but I do want to see some of the stuff you are sharing! This is a sharing site, at leas I thought it was......

A nice thing about Ipernity (wich Flickr dos NOT have for free accounts) is that you can see who opens your items.

I noticed I already have a picture that has 45 visits in about a week since I posted it. Sadly the number of comments stay way behind the numbers of visits. So please, if you open a picutre or video to watch it, and have thoughts about it, share them in a comment.

And keep it nice, not to vulgar please. Comments like: "My ***** in here" are not my thing.

I just completed uploading my first vid. My god, did it take long! Is this common on Ipernity, or is it just my problem?

Anyway, hope you enjoy it, I am planning to upload more.

I have been around now for 3 weeks, and I must admit I like it here a lot more then I did on Flickr. I also can upload lots more, wich is a great advantage over having to choose what to post before you hit the 200 items limit.

I hope all my visitors and friens like what I have uploaded so far, and please don't hesitiate to add anything you like to your favourites, add comments or tags, or make suggestions to adding items to specific groups. I am usually a very easy going person!