Right. This was clarified again very recently by hauksdottir; Members are allowed to share their enthusiasm for products or promos that they find to be of value or interest. The prohibition is on merchants advertising their own stuff here. As others have said, such threads, while "commercial" appearing, are often appreciated by those who wouldn't otherwise know about good products or promos. I never would have known about face_off's subsurface scattering scripts if I hadn't read about them here. I'm grateful, as the "Hyperreal" product I bought has enhanced some of my renders and offered a bit more insight into the Materials Room. On the other hand, I do feel that at times it's a bit much ... the "I posted today's special first!" thing is tiresome, if ultimately harmless. In my opinion the only real "problem" with this and pretty much all the Poser forums in the past few months is that there seems to have been a big increase in off-topic chatter and pointless negativity. This tends to distract and rob space from the helpful on-topic threads, but so long as people aren't violating TOS, there's not much you can do about that but try to contribute in a positive or useful fashion more than you whine, scandal-monger, or play "cop." I'd much rather see people get excited about a big sale than throw a misguided moralistic hissy fit because someone somewhere rendered a boy at the beach with his shirt off. :-) Encouraging self-moderation and discretion in posting is probably all we can do when it comes to the perceived excesses of our fellow members. The recent trend to demand thread moves or deletions is ridiculous. Let the moderators do their job, I say. If you don't care for a thread, it's easy to move on to another.