Forum: MarketPlace Showcase


Subject: Can you solve the Product Showcase mystery??

romanceworks opened this issue on Aug 11, 2004 ยท 69 posts


hauksdottir posted Fri, 13 August 2004 at 12:04 AM

For Rebekah and Les... You are among the considerate merchants. You have also raised some good points. Out of the maybe 200 images which get posted in the Poser section of the gallery in a 24 hour period, a handful get questioned for TOS violations and another handful or so get moved to appropriate galleries. These are judgement calls. An umpire working an evening game has to call them as he sees them at that moment. If it turns out the next day or decades later that he was wrong, little can be done. Here, people can not only prove their contention, but get an image moved back. I've considered moving more images than were moved, trying to balance artistic concerns against the promotional aspect. In general... Lines are repeatedly crossed. People complain. Steps are taken. There is a bit of cross-fire. People get upset. Sometimes people get caught in the cross-fire. Discussions get opened. Arguments made and points defended. Dust settles. Things are done. People may or may not agree... but they usually have a better understanding of various points of view. Without controversy and discussion, there would be no change. Without change, there is death. (Yes, part of the definition of life is change, growth, and reaction to stimuli.) This website has changed a lot since it was the Poser Forum. I remember the first yelps when it went commercial and the :gasp: store opened. The people who opened that store took hell for destroying the community spirit. There is no going back to the days when everything was shared freely, but I don't think it is necessary to turn the entire website into a mall. We will have to find a balance-point. NOTE: if I'm coming across as preachy tonight, it isn't intended. I have a hellacious headcold in addition to the migraine so I'm trying to formulate my thoughts through green slime. But if I don't type anything and go back to bed, you guys will think that I'm ignoring the issue. I'm not ignoring it or you, but it is going to be slow. And now I'm going to get another mug of peppermint tea.... Carolly