For new members, Renderosity is obviously an invaluable resource for learning Poser and its potential. However, for many of the longtime members, that is really no longer the reason this place stayed on our Favorites list. We would share our individual knowledge and experiences, often answering the same questions over and over again, for the benefit of new members because it encouraged their participation and reciprocal contribution, and helped to build the community as a whole.

The key factor in the above is the essential concept of Community.

With the departure of the OT Forum, my personal interest, and thus my participation, has simply waned. I still breeze through the Poser forum, but fairly quickly these days, largely seeing the sameolsameol, but now, when I reach the end, there is nowhere left (here) to go hang and just shoot the breeze with the folks whom I have come to regard as old friends.

What was formerly like an exciting novel with new chapters everyday, has become merely a textbook, and one that I have largely already read.

In her post above, TygerCub really nailed it for me:

TygerCub:
the ability to get to know the people behind the name tags was a welcome change to the one-dimensional quality of a regular Poser forum, the OT forum was the area on this site that brought me closer to the people who enjoyed the same hobby I enjoyed... and that's what made this place a community.

I havent been here in a few days and just now saw the announcement about an new OT, so off to go see what youve done.

Thanks for asking Shanna.

(and howdy there Bone, long time no see)