"Now, who says they're not having "issues" with that site? Personally, I think sites with these kinds of pop-ups and spyware ads should be banned. But, hey, I'm not an admin, so what do I know, right?" ****** How ungrateful you people are! How blinded by prejudice!! (yes, pre-JUDGING) And how short your memories!!! (Last year, I had a clue from a sysop that JohnRanter's account was a clone and that he'd been here a while.) I suppose you all avoid "DigitalBabes" because you fear seeing cybernetic anime-style females with big boobs? What about all those "worthless girls" from HackWorthless' site? I could go on, but I might lose my temper. (Note to mods... I am really sick of JohnRanter and his never-ending complaints.) Tim did this community a major service by providing quite literally dozen and dozens and dozens of free high-quality skin textures so that we wouldn't be stuck with the ones in the box. He gave us variety. A large number of the commercial textures and freebies by other "creators" were nothing more than his textures with slight modifications. He got ripped off almost as badly and as often as Traveler... but he kept the site up anyway. Most of you ignoramuses don't realize how much bandwidth costs. Some of the people here have been hit with $1000-plus monthly bills from their ISP if they dared to post something people liked. If you use a free-host, there is a risk that you will be kicked off for exceeding bandwidth. This means that your ENTIRE webpage with ALL its work and features is now pixel-dust. Just search the threads for the horror stories and tales of people begging for hosts... this isn't a new situation. Some of the items lost are lost for good. The free stuff providers get NO help from Renderosity, despite being one of the main features which drove their growth and still provide the chief reason people come here. Blaming someone because he can't afford to pay you to download his stuff is pretty darned shabby in my book. If a creator has to use a free service, and that host uses pop-ups... why don't you get a pop-up blocker or just don't go to his site? Kicking off someone who nurtured this community, and slapping him in the face is quite simply uncalled-for. Denying everybody else the opportunity to download and enjoy the use of a item is selfish in the extreme. Constantly ranting got old long ago. How about either showing some gratitude, some understanding and compassion, or if you can't do that... just shut your mouth!!! If anybody should be banned, it certainly isn't the guy who GAVE us these textures in the first place. Carolly