"I feel that r'osity should be about art and not about who can get the most sales" Clearly this isn't Renderosity's point of view. Let's take a look at the front page of Renderosity, the page that represents what this site is about... What is the very first thing you see? Merchant of the Month In the latest news section, of the 5 articles available there, 3 are promoting some type of product or service that Renderosity sells. Let's move on down the front page and what do we find? On Sale...Top Sellers...Featured Products...hmmmmmm...where's the art promotion? Moving further down the front page: Renderosity Happenings...All 7 articles promote some item available for purchase and most of them are RO products, not merchant products. So, it should be clear to anyone coming to this site that this is first and foremost a business, selling products. It is not primarily an art gallery. I agree that no one should be forced to give credit for what products are used in their images and if someone made liewald feel that way, shame on them. On the other hand, I don't have the time to answer a plethora of IM's asking me what product I used in an image, which is what happens when I don't list the products used. Additionally, I appreciate when an artist credits products used, because I may see something that I'd like to purchase and without those links, I have no clue what it is unless I write the artist and ask. Credits to merchants increase RO's sales and anyone reading the front page will realize that sales is the focus of this site, not artwork. Inner Traveler http://www.innertraveler.com is a site who's purpose is to promote artwork. Check out their front page. Again, we need some succint, objective guidelines as to how you are differentiating between a promo image and a work of art. I don't think that is too much to ask.

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