With a Product Showcase Forum,a Product Showcase Gallery,credits for products(WITH LINKS)on most images in the regular Poser Gallery(probably one of the most viewed on the net),the Market Place with full product info,and three pages for Product pictures and endorsing,the Front Page that showcases hot and sale items, Banner Ads on(I beleive)every page at Renderosity,a link at the top of every page in the Poser Forum to take you right to the Product Forum.... the merchants now want to flood the Poser Forum with their merchandise spam? Wasn't the Product Showcase Forum created because the vast majority of members wanted to have a place..JUST ONE FU*KING PLACE that they could learn about,exchange ideas on,help out each other with Poser,without Merchants shoving their wares down our throats. Ive overlooked when merchants come to this forum, airing their dirty laundry about who stole whose pose this week,or to inform me that I must delete my MP purchase( and lose my money) because they now claim some other merchant stole it from them.Those are business disputes that if the merchant had even the smallest amount of professionalism,would deal with it without dragging the members and customers thru their Shit. Now we have a handful of Greedy merchants who knowing full well that they shouldnt be posting their products here are doing so.One takes the attitude that he is an artist,and thusly has the right to post here,another tries to justify it by saying its WIPindeed. And yet another merchant (female) called the members here whiners" for not wanting her product ads here,and get this..WE(the whining members) should be the ones moved to another forum. I know this is not a cut and dry situation as merchants like PhilC,SteveShanks,Jim Burton,Sharen,Anton (to name only a few)will on occasion show a small shot of something theyre working on.Im Very OK with that (as I think most are),because of their demeanor,the way it is presented,and the explanation of how they work,is more of an education than of any sales pitch. I find it fantastic to be able see how the masters work,.but more importantly its because merchants like them are here to help and make this forum what it should be.They take the time and effort to answer a question from an advance user to helping the most novice newbie in other words, they are contributing members of this forum(not carpet baggers) .I believe they understand how important it is,that for Renderosity to remain strong and continue to grow,the Poser forum should remaine free of spam,and the rape by the greedy.Unfortunately the're this monetary greedy handful,that just can't crasp the concept that this is also a very wise business practice.If you spam this forum,insult the members,and play your little "lets see what I can get away with"games,you run off members(members=CUSTOMERS). If a merchant makes a product, that shows good craftsmanship,origanilty,usefulness,etc.it will be talked about here by our large compulsive buying Poserholic membership, and will no doubt generate more sales for himwhat more advertising could they want. Add this to the above list of avenues for their product to be noticed,and I doubt much more can be done. If they can't sell their wears on the largest site on the net,with more ways to gain access to them than ANY other site....adding flags,more links,bigger buttons,and spamming the Poser forum isn't going to change a thing....people just don't want what they have to offer....simple... Should any changes be made...only one that I can think of..open up that Merchant's Forum to the general membership,so we can annoy the crap out of them for awhile! OK..I'll just shut up now... SWAMP