exactly...

though the policy for uploading things has been updated, and when you go to upload an image, you can clearly see the last update to the policy was a couple days ago, it is NOT being called out to the user directly...  i certainly don't bother going to read the policy every time it gets updated as historically it's dealt with nudity and profanity, both of which rarely make it into anything i post, so why bother, right?

well, guess i need to keep an eye out for that as a few things have indeed changed.  i just noticed that images that are held for review by Staff cannot be reposted by the user until a decision has been made.  i hope the policy has changed on the other end of things where Staff is notifying the user their image is being held so the user KNOWS what's going on and doesn't repost by mistake, thinking their image has simply disappeared somehow and are trying to rectify that.  i know that in the past, that has not been the case, to notify the user and communicate with them what is going on...

is it our responsibility to keep abreast of policy changes?  you bet; however, if this is a COMMUNITY, then COMMINUCATION is the key for so many things, at least from my perspective, and that requires more than a cute little notice tucked away in a forum, and an update link on the image upload page that, realistically, no one really notices anyway.

i mean, i'm betting that if you were to poll those that have posted AI stuff to the galleries and ask if they know/knew about the change, most would be left scratching their heads with a firm answer of "no"...