To me it all really depends on what the goal of the creator was, and what gives 'them' sense of accomplishment.
Looking at one image, 5 diferent people may see 5 different things and appreciate different aspects of it.
What I think the original poster has trouble with is that he is mixing the general value of something with his personal values, preferences and interests.
Just because something doesn't turn "me" on, doesn't mean that it is of no value at all, or that it's not of value to someone else, or that it's appropriate or even fair for me to knock it down.

Heres' one ingerent problem with an extraordinary talent and original creations (I don't know that problem is the right word, but I can't think of better at the moment).  Most of your average people probably don't have the knowledge and abiolity to appreciate it. Especially if it's not associated with something that's popular and mainstream at the time.

Look at the TV media... if you want exposure to the masses, you have to cater to the 'average'.

Cheating themselves out of creativity... for you that may be the case, and for me that would be the case. For someone else, whom may have different abilities and aptitude and priorities, it may be the pinnacle of "their" creativity. And they get as much sense of accomplishment for pushing themselves, as you may get out of pushing yourself.  Even if on the grand scheme of things you may have greater abilities in some aspect of your life.

I wouldn't say that the top talent left because people wouldn't look... They probably did what top talent often does, moves on to new or different challenges. Most people recognize that they don't have the power of taking a community of couple of thousand people or so and make them conform to cater to their talents. They tend to seek communities which offer them an opportunity for a challenge. If your talents are a lot greater then what the community has to offer, then one eventually outgrows it.  It's not anyone's 'fault', it's the nature of things and relationships between people.

Also, who's to say that character development ability is indicator of 'real creativity? There are a lot of aspects to creativity.

I'm looking at your statement:  "One of my beefs with the overall poser community is that if you did make a perfect pic if it ws not made in poser nobody would look here." ... well, you;re asking for the impossible here, you want people whom arte congregating because they have a lot of interest in Poser to switcs their interest and notice YOU, working in a medium they're not as interested in. Well, that's not going to happen. You're barking up the wrong tree for that.
It's like getting mad at the wine tasters club for not taking notice of coffee, because coffee too is a liquid... Well, it's the wine tasters club, coffee is not their thing.
Just because someone has interested in poser, it doesn't mean that they're into or able to appreciate character development.

You know, to put it very bluntly, it appears to me that some people use poser characters as a new for of 'inflatable girlfriend'. A guy like that is NOT going to take notice of your Napoleon character. Definately not in a way that will do justice to the time and effort you put into it.
Now, if you made a model which one-ups "the girl next door", and you make it from scratch etc... you're more likely to get noticed.

Your beef seems to stem from a frustration of trying to change things you have no power over changing. Recognize that and move on to the parts that suit you and your interests more.
Sure, you can continue to battle to, and eventually you may even have some impact on the currents within rendo. It's up to you where you want to spend your energy.
One thing you do need to know if you want to spend your time and energy changing the community, beefing and griping and knocking down others will NOT accomplish that. It will only get a lot of people ticked off. It's a matter of psychological games and marketing and group dynamics and group politics, not necessarily the mater of having a product that's 'better' in some way.

Sure, you put a lot of time and effort into creating something, and "they" don't care and don't appreciate it much. It's not fair on some universal balance scheme of things.  Well, guess what... "Welcome to life"

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