[imported_Dr. Weird]

I feel obligated to add my two cents to this topic whenever it come up, even though others beat me to almost everything I planned to say. In theory, a single gallery mod on the old site could permanently remove any piece they chose from the server. In practice, this was rare--usually reserved for flagrant content violations. Most of the offending was shifted into 'quarantine,' and deleted in batches once the team came to an agreement.

We did this specifically so artists or other staff would have the opportunity to make a case for keeping it. Over the lifetime of the previous gallery we did remove a LOT of content. I believe it came out to something like 4000+ pictures out of 28,000 uploaded. However, almost every time we singled out an individual artist's entire gallery for removal was either at their request or due to the ever-popular ragequit.

As for 3D poser art, well, isn't the fact it's illegal in multiple countries reason enough? I mean, that's not an exaggeration, y'know? People have gone to jail for it. That might not be the case in your particular country, but I hope you can see why the previous AOTK's staff and I considered it justified. Whole bunch of explicitly anime-styled renders got the axe too. Aesthetics had nothing to do with it.