IMO, there is no proof to this, only an interpretation of pure statistics, which could have hundreds of legitimate reasons, but instead Rosity chose to pick the one that wasn't. So Lady Cherry, a long time contributor to this system, is not even given the benefit of the doubt to state her case, before being punished for a crime that most likely was not even committed. Even Rosity can't say for sure, so to me, why risk the backlash and bad PR that is sure to come out of this? Sometimes their decisions just make no sense at all...

If a lot of members are from cgtalk that come from her site, than that would definitely explain the discrepancy between visits and joins. We all know that cgtalk has quite an animosity (unfortunately) toward Poser and the like, and so even though they clicked the banner to see what Renderosity was, doesn't mean they'd be intersted in joining. That and the major server problems where people would probably hit the link several times just to get into the site probably had a lot to do with it to.

To me all Rosity accomplished by this was to piss off more people and cause bad PR for themselves over something that could, maybe, kinda be true, if one interprets the statistics that way. And it sucks for Lady Cherry who has given much and then treated as an outlaw over something as shaky as this. Bad form on Rosity's part...

I will have to give rendervisions a look...

ShadowWind