Paper Hat S.
3D hosting site with a biased admin
Open3D labs is a SFW branch of the NSFW site, Smutbase. If you're going to upload to this site, be advised that the administrator is biased against certain uploads, making the playing field unlevel. Pic Transcript: "Thanks, but no thanks. I have several reasons to not approve this upload. Political issues aside, I am not a fan of iClone. I am considering banning the use of iClone models on the site going forward, just like FUSE models were banned from SFMLab in the past. It's low effort $#*! that nobody should use. Your Gordan Ramsay model was approved by a mod before I had a good look at it, and I decided to leave it up since there's not much harm in it. So let's get into the politics of this Like, I get it. You want to honor the memory of this victim of police brutality. But I don't think you're honoring the memory of this person by making a $#!%ty 3D model based on their likeness, and uploading it to a site that is strongly tied to pornographic content. Think of the potential use of this type of content, and how other content on the sites have been used. While it would be nice to see this model used in respectful pictures and animations, that's the least likely use you'd see, considering the target audience of our sites. You'd more likely see comedy videos that make light of the situation, play the tragedy for a joke, disrespectful memes and pornography featuring this man's likeness. You releasing this model greatly increases the potential of this man's likeness being used and abused in controversial ways, to the point where you reduce him to a tool to be used by others. You uploading this to the site, puts me in a position where I have to either reject or approve this. No matter if I approve or reject the upload, you're deliberately forcing me to pick a side on a topic I have no strong opinion on. Even though my opinion on it doesn't even matter. If I were to approve this, that potentially makes me a lightning rod to catch all criticism for despicable $#^% people will do with that model. And in these turbulent times I would rather not pull a lot of scrutiny to the site. It could have consequences I am not prepared to deal with. Plus, it would detract from the voices within the black community that desperately need to be heard. So I reject this model. If you wish to share the model with the world, please find some other site to upload it." As you can see, he/she not only has bias, but also weighs down uploads with negative aspects to corrupt the intentions of the uploader. I don't recommend hosting 3D models here.