romanceworks opened this issue on Aug 11, 2004 ยท 69 posts
hauksdottir posted Thu, 12 August 2004 at 4:29 AM
I am trying to get the most obvious of the sales pitches out of the Poser Gallery and into Product Showcase Gallery, because they are really advertisements showcasing a product. Even though sometimes technically nice, they are promotional pieces first and foremost. Moving your image with the direct clickable link was a no-brainer. Most of the others I have moved were images showing the merchant's character or texture or clothing with blatant promotional copy "coming soon!!!" usually just pasted against a background. If it says "this by me (MP) and that by me (MP) and this other by me, too (MP)"... and no credit to anybody else... it is going to smell like an ad. If the same merchant posts 5 images in a week of the same texture under the same lighting, just featuring different views of it, it smells like an ad. Beta-testing something and having it plopped into the middle of the scene and raving about how easily it poses... smells like an ad. If it is borderline, I will usually leave it. There is a message on the Gallery Header in red type asking merchants not to post their sales material in the Poser Forum. It doesn't beg, plead, order, or wheedle. It asks. But if the merchant won't post an image in the right forum, we have to move it. Carolly Poser Coordinator