I think Aeneas hit it on the head with most of those points. There is a growing belief that the Poser community, overall, has brought so much of the negativity it experiences from other 3D communities upon itself by insulating its own community from even the slightest bit of blunt criticism, while at the same time celebrating mediocrity. Even people here, in this forum, have pointed out time and time again how novice works, or works with obvious errors in them, seem to garner nepotistical high praise and comments disproportionately in the Poser galleries. I don't necessarily believe in the "elitist" theory (that most people using high end apps look down on others because of how much they spent on their software), because I think there's MUCH more to it than that. There are users, for instance, of "low-end" software (Bryce, Carrara, Wings, etc.) who look at the Poser community with contempt as well. So it can't have very much to do with the price of the software, like some people want to believe. :-)

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.