It is funny how this superior arguement creeps into so many forms of art.  I rember back in my younger days of an argument between still life / posed scene photographers vs. unposed real world photographers.  The real world ones would say that anybody can set up a good scene to take a great looking picture picture.  It takes talent to get just the right shot when pictures are not planned.

Same thing here.  I guess some people just need to put other art down to feel better and to justify their own abilities. (shrugs)

The real funny thing about this situation is that in most movie cgi FX scenes or games, the ones who models and textures the characters/items are NOT the ones who are animating and setting up the scenes.  You have modelers who create the models. You texture artists who design all the textures for the models.  You have animators that bring these models to life and you have directors who put everything together in how it looks. (yes I left out a whole slew of other people like lighting specialists and motion capture people etc and yes some people do multiple jobs)  Basically, when you look in the movie / game biz, poser artists would be the directors or director/animator(if it is an animation).  Or in the photography world, it would be the still life photographer. :)

So since this is not just a modeling website, but rather a site that covers all sides of the art, it is not such a bad thing when you look at it like that. :)