Cheers, you're absolutely right there.
I was going to put the word success in quotations, i.e. "success", but I figured y'all would know what I meant anyway.

It used to be a much more intimate place than it is now, and I don't mean even having to go all the way back to '99 or 2000. Perhaps a bit more unruly, but it had a certain "personality", which seems to have become watered down considerably, with the advent of the takeover of rampant merchandising.

As for not buying stuff from here as a form of protest or whatever, I doubt that'd have any impact. I haven't bought anything from here in years, and it hasn't mattered any to anybody, I doubt. But it's not out of protest, it's just because, frankly, I don't see anything here ever that I'd want, plus, I'm not so sure about the quality, after reading things like "Marketplace tester wanted...must be able to release 3-5 items a day". The quote isn't exact, most likely, but the essence is accurate. That was an ad for a new MP  tester, placed here not long ago (maybe 6 months ago?). The key word being "release". Not "test", which you would think would be the important thing, but, "release"....

I browse DAZ all the time, and have bought much from them over the years, and even very recently. On average, I'd say I buy something or other from them every 2 weeks. The best thing about DAZ is you don't have to wade through 1500 pages of garbage to get at something decent; they're much more strict on their quality, so alot of merchant wanabees don't even get their foot in the door.

I look in the MP here, and I see.... well, I'll be nice today.

         "...but when someone presents an idea...and one that      
       actually may make a little sense....nothing but crickets. "

You don't know the half of it... In the end, this isn't "our" site. It hasn't been "our" site for a long time now. Suggestions will be heard, of course, but anything that goes against the predefined set of parameters that the PTB have laminated in stone, will not be even considered, particularly where the Almighty TOS is concerned.