[q]I think the reasons given as 'silence or lies' is a little hyperbole...
There was a thread opened for members to suggest girls in, it had some strings attached;
The girls had to be available to travel, capable of performing and not using fake pictures.
The reason you were met with silence was probably because you accused everything you didn't want to hear as 'lies'.[/q]
That is a complete misrepresentation, totally incorrect and nothing more than a strawman. I'm talking about multiple threads over several years, not just one. In many of those threads there was no official response, that is by definition 'silence'
In one particular thread the response was: 'We can't find any black girls in Europe' Apart from being a preposterous statement in itself there were then several posts linking many ethnic models who were active not only in Europe, but many of them in France. So unless their idea of looking for ethnic models was sitting in a chair and covering their eyes whilst counting to ten then this was an untrue statement. Whether untrue by omission or by deliberation it was still untrue. Hence a lie. There are possibly a few amateur photographers on here who could have a black model in front of their lenses with nothing more complicated than a short internet search on relevant sites, yet it's impossible to find one?
As for the thread where they asked us to find models. Apart from the utterly ludicrous situation that is in itself, there had been several models suggested previously, where are they? And as for them having 'many girls of different diversities' this is also untrue. Most of the diversity comes from years ago, not recently, and even then, there aren't that many. Why exactly do you think this subject keeps creeping up every year or so?