Hi Tammy, You have basically asked the age-old question of "What makes the philosopher more insightful in life than the student? What makes the ethics teacher more moral than those he teaches? What makes the religion instructor less sinful than his congregation?" The answer, simply put, is nothing. It is only through a constant internal struggle with right and wrong that the teacher has ever gained any insight to pass on to others. For those who like myself, are religious, it might be said it is only through a constant struggle with good and evil, that through the grace of God, the teacher, sinful as they are, has been given any insight into matters that others can learn from. If this student is transformed through their own soul searching into a teacher of others, then stands forth to speak on right and wrong, does it make them a hypocrite since they too are surely a sinner? The Bible says that all have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God and deserve death, and it is only through God's own grace that any will be saved. I submit it is also only through God's grace that any human has any insight or wisdom in philosophical or ethical matters to pass on to others through council. Based on this premise, one is never truly qualified to council others on matters of ethics, if the qualifier is that they have led a sin free life. If the qualifier instead is that they have felt deep remorse for the times they were wrong, and have spent a great deal of time soul searching, and trying to figure out what went wrong, and what the right thing to have done was instead, then perhaps humans, and even me, are qualified to speak from experience, if not blamelessness. But, you asked a few specific questions. I will endeavor to answer those as best I can. "Some might ask how ethicial is it for other site admins...to use other sites features to promote ones own?" I am not sureYou tell me? Renderosity accepts a free banner ad on PoserPros that advertises Renderosity and it's Marketplace, but does not return the favor. Albeit, and this IS VERY IMPORTANT, we never demanded that the favor be returned as a condition of offering a free banner ad to Renderosity. So they are technically blameless. Please people, remember that. "Some might ask how ethicial is it for other site admins... to feed off another community's issue to generate more members for oneself" I accept all who come to PoserPros with open arms, regardless of their past and where they are coming from. They are even given a clean slate to start over with if they have a bad past. I never overtly ask people to come to us because of their issues elsewhere. If they are coming to us due to issues elsewhere however, I will not refuse them entrance to our site, since all are welcome. You are welcome on our site too Tammy. "Some might ask how ethicial is it for other site admins... to pretend to care about one community in order to gain more for oneself?" This is where we differ in our opinions. I truly do care about the Poser and Artistic Community. It is not a pretense. But since you cannot read my heart and mind, nor can I read yours, since only God can read the hearts and minds of others, then perhaps the biblical test should apply to you and to me both. "By their works ye shall know them." "Some might ask how ethicial is it for other site admins...to encourage others to post on other communities in order to build or continue a false sense of negativity within that community?" You confuse passivity with encouragement. We do not delete, censor, lock, move, nor encourage others to post any threads of any particular subject on our site, be it praise or negativity, be it for us, or against us. That is our rule. We live by the rules we made. We do not interfere. The same way I do not interfere with threads that criticize me personally or my staff, I do not interfere with threads that criticize other sites. We have sort of a "Wild, Wild, West" atmosphere on our site, meaning there is not a lot of policing going on, and at one time or another, most everyone carries a big gun and pulls it out and starts shooting. Granted, it is not for everyone, and takes some getting used to. It is just the culture of our site, and it works very well to almost always keep the peace without the need of staff enforcement of that peace, since mutually assured destruction deters even the most ardent flamers. Thank you for bringing up your concerns Tammy, it is always refreshing to be able to discuss philosophical matters, as well as have a chance to explain the misperceptions you have fallen under about what we are all about at PoserPros.