shrug Life happens while you were making other plans, eh? ;] Not sure, Jumpstart... mine and a few others speculation is that it's a start towards and increasing insularity: not neccessarily lockout non exclusives, but make them less desirable by offering more and more curtailed merchant resources compared to vendors with exclusive items. And possibly exclusive vendors. 1) First lockout site owners who also just happen to be merchants here - not ban, but lock them out of vendor resources while still taking their money if they prove to be compliant enough to roll over with out saying "screw you". 2) Extend it to admins of other "competing" sites. 3) Wait for that flap to die out, and extend it to mods of competing sites. 4) When that flap dies out, change policies again in another "We'd like feedback on this change - not that we're going to pay any attention to it, but you can say whatever" policy change to remove merchants forum and tools access from vendors who are not exclusive with Renderosity on their products. 5) Eventually extend that to vendors who sell elsewhere as well, making it prohibitive for them to not be exclusive to Renderosity. -- More than likely, there'll be some effort to make it clear to mods that work both here and at other sites that that's discouraged. And along the way, you'll have eliminated the people who won't play - you didn't need them anyway and they just cause disruption by pointing out that your latest admin brainstorm is a actually a brown spot leaking out your ears. ;] Of course, you never just say straight out that you want to change your business model to exclusive only vendors and to discourage people from selling in other markets because it'll be more profitable for you and incidentally make it harder for the smaller sites - no... straightforward announcements isn't the Renderosity Way. Having worked inside mods forum here for a long time - close to two years - it's never been the policy of Renderosity's owners to just tell the members what they're trying to do and announce it, that's alien to the way of thinking here. Afterall, you guys might not agree, and you might ask difficult questions that'll have to be obfuscated, or ignored, and then it'll be apprent they're being ignore. Best to just implement it behind a smokescreen of bullshit. And mods who ask dificult or pointed questions, or who point out what it looks like after you strip the PR away, in mods forums can be ignored or fobbed off with BS explanations because they have an expectation that they won't talk out of shop. They may even have had to sign an NDA to not talk out of shop - that was rumoured to be coming slightly before I quit here. Of course... someone will come along soon and scoff at all this as wild speculations, probably someone with a semblance of being official... just Ironbear talking out his ass again. ;] Keep in mind though, I've been watching this place for a long time from both sides of the curtain, and I've got a pretty good base of observation to base a feel for how things work here on. As the man said in Silverado: "Hide and watch". grin But you want to lay real money that at least some of my speculations aren't close to the mark, come talk o me. ;]

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