I'm sorry if I've steped on toes with the topic, but there are or WERE guidlines about posting and what was exceptable, and the Poser Forum Moderators were to monitor and move threads. Seems like moderators are title only and it's a free for all in the Poser Forum. Yes, there are rules. We follow them. Rules change. For example, the "No OT posts" rule was relaxed around 2 years ago, at the request of the majority of forum posters. The "Freebie links must to to the page in question" rule is for the Freestuff section. Not for links posted in the forum (which I would guess 95% of the time adhere to this rule anyway.) The "If you need to register then it should say" rule is again for the Freestuff section. Since the vast majority of posts with links to freebies clearly state in the title "new freebie available" or whatnot, I'm not really seeing where the problem lies. Additionally, since not all freebies are submitted by their creators to the Renderosity freestuff, we would tend to view the posts as useful to the community, and not a duplication of information. Sale announcements for other sites we have to look at on a case by case basis. Otherwise we reach the point where we have to move every post that speculates on the future of Poser 7 or talks about new rigging methods for characters in development, into the Showcase forum. If a merchant takes advantage to post several promo pics and "advertorial" text, then it will get moved to showcase. I cannot see us opening a "freebie forum" since we already have the freestuff section. The only sites I see with this type of forum are those which don't have a freestuff section for members to post to. Karen Poser Mod

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