Come on guys. This is not productive. No one brought up Poser Pros except Dialyn and even as subtle as it was it was glaringly obvious. This whole tangent can be traced back to her post and it's incredibly unfair to discount the words of one who happens to own the other site. If people want to build walls that's their problem, don't make it the problem of those of us who don't. Mehndi's comments were on topic so lets get back to that.

If Renderosity chooses to not pay article or tutorial writers and the writers agree to that then it's their choices. If someone want's to be paid for their article, Renderosity's mag isn't the place as of yet. Who knows of the future. Perhaps it will get there someday for that to happen. (I wasn't aware of how the articles worked)

My opinion on the subject is that if you publish articles from people who are happy with the coverage or bragging rights, while it's all well and good, you may not (no absolutes) get the quality you'd get if you paid. And in a way I'm comparing the two magazines in question. On the other hand, most reading this magazine are hobbyist and their tutorials are excellent. There are many who just want to give back to the community, help support it, etc. It's how I feel.

We should see how the online version goes before really running it into the ground. They've obviously been doing it this way from the beginning and the subject has never come up before. I do see the point of others though on putting it online. In a way it does feel like a pay version of Renderosity. But again, we won't know till it happens.

...... Kendra