from AsherD: [ to Lady Cherry at Rendervisions.com ]
"We have removed your link in the Renderosity Web Ring. We have extensive experience in the amount of time it takes for a site to move up to the number two spot, and the rate of your site's advance is cause for attention when we believe the results were not achieved through legitimate means. You are welcome to rejoin the Web Ring and participate on an even field. thanks,
--Asher Renderosity Admin"

To: --Asher Renderosity Admin

I joined Rendervisions roughly 4 months ago. I was member # six hundred and thirty-something.
Now...membership has topped the 2500 member mark. That's a big increase in traffic. And a lot of them are the "get in there...roll up your sleeves...and help out" kind of people. (Happy to know them.) The site wasn't much 4 months ago...Zero posts on a lot of the forum categories...Only about 75 images in the gallery...Only 2 or 3 names listed as "Admins and Moderators"...A marketplace that mostly sent you elsewhere, including Renderosity I might add, for your items of interest. But with Lady Cherry and Enchanting Mirage plugging away at it...it has grown, and grown quickly. There are now about a dozen moderators...Hundreds of wonderful images in the various galleries...And a marketplace that is gaining in both content and quality.

Your above statement talks a numbers game...."we believe the results were not achieved through legitimate means."....so does that mean you "believe" your results are? I, for one, logged into Renderosity over 3 months ago...I have not logged out since then. Do you "believe" I have been online -At your site- for all that time? I doubt it...yet with all your number crunching, "No Red Flags"? Of course not....That's one more number in the "There are currently xxxx surfers online." column. Not a peep from anyone saying.."You should log off when you leave." or "Please don't remain logged in when you depart the site." How many would truly be "Surfing Renderosity" if they all logged out when they left the site. "Legitimate means?" ...sounds shifty to me. I think the key to understanding the above statement is this: "the rate of your site's advance is cause for attention".... Is it attention? or alarm? Do the big boys feel someone breathing down their necks? Is another site offering a better deal to vendors in the marketplace? Is another site treating the artists that support that site with more respect and dignity? Is another site helping new artists instead of acting like they are a burden to the site? Is another site getting "your" customers? What you did was nothing more than a blatant monopolistic act in an attempt to stifle the competition. "Even playing field"...my microsoft ass.

-Henk Stenkel
Former Renderosity Member

BTW: I have "Logged out"permanently.