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[N. Thompson]

I'm sure quite a few of you have seen the recent poll at KDE-look about 
people's favourite kinds of backgrounds, in case you don't know yet the 
results are:

KDE promoting wallpaper     8%
Nature photo     24%
Image manipulations of photos / collages     5%
Simple drawings     11%
Sayings, quotes     1%
Fantasy     8%
Rendered objects     11%
Erotic background     15%
Anti-Microsoft/Anti-SCO wallpaper     9%
Other     9%
Votes:    1001

I'm glad to see that nature photos won but displeased to see that erotic 
backgrounds took second place. KDE-look has become a dumping ground for 
people's attempts at trying to push softcore porn as normal, in fact 
there are several examples of art (if you could call it that) where 
people have pictures of nude women with little or nothing censored.

I personally think its disgusting and to make things worse now I can't 
check to see what legitimate artwork has been submitted to the site any 
more because of the embarrassment of being on a site with that kind of 
filth. Isn't it also unfortunate how someone can post a background with 
hate-symbols (ex: swastika) on it and it'll get a higher rating then 
Christian artwork simply because the people there have such an unfair 
grudge towards Christianity, to top if off I've reported cases of abuse 
where people have posted inappropriate comments towards Christian 
artwork and yet the moderators have done nothing about it despite it 
being an obvious breach of the web site's terms of use.

Am I the only one who thinks the Christian community would be better off 
with a Desktop artwork web site of its own, something that not only 
covers KDE and its applications but also Gnome/GTK and other window 
managers, it seems to me that putting Christian artwork that will be 
voted down almost to the point of going below the 20% limit the site has 
before content is no longer shown is like casting pearls before swine. 
Or I've got another interesting idea which could have an interesting 
effect, what if several Christian artists got together and decided to 
make a bunch of Christian artwork and then posted it all on the same 
day, its not hostile and its not harming anyone however it will replace 
most of the content on the front pages with Christian art, to make 
things even more interesting e-mail all your Christian friends and have 
them vote the Christian artwork as good to push the rating up :-) .

BTW. I've heard very little of Everaldo lately, anyone know what 
happened to him, maybe he's finished with KDE artwork? if I'm not 
mistaken Everaldo was a Christian although his artwork was neutral.

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