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Elsadog - I agree with you entirely on consistency, which is why the forum guidelines are up there for users to read through and for moderators to follow. There are some areas which are subjective and we try to apply common sense where possible. Feel free to resubmit your pictures and we'll post them if they are suitable.
The thread will remain open for those of you who wish to post your amateur photos.
Thanks all.
Dave
One is myself and several others, some of whom I do wish not to name - They do a great job on the forum and are highly value their input and moderation. So you can continue to ask, but it will be futile as I have explained my stance here.
I hope that you now accept this and we can close this matter for good, so we can all start talking / posting about more important matters which are relevant to the title of the forum, namely poker, a game we all love and hate sometimes when the poker gods deal us a bad beat....
Kind regards,
Bernie
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These are the guidlines for posting on this forum. Can any member of Sky, or a mod, point out which section of the guidlines the deleted photographs fell foul of? I know Bernie would like to sweep this under the carpet but for future reference I need to know for what reason the arbitrary decision to delete was taken.
ps..made this myself! hahaha
Shame things got dragged off-topic again. Might have a few pics to submit ... i'll go through them.