lol.  renderosity is the giver?  i suppose that musicians should be so thankful for places to play, they should simply thank clubs for the opportunity and not ask for any money in return.  or copywriters should just thank magazines and newspapers for publishing their work while remaining unpaid.

this isn't a non-profit organization.  this isn't  a community service.  note the .com.  we get visibility and they get often professional quality advertisements of the products they sell, along with gobs of traffic for their banner ads.  if they weren't getting the better end of the deal, they would have closed the forums and shut down the gallery a long time ago.  i know a few people who have worked  hard to make community sites popular, spent ages making content, and become quite comfortable off the revenue just from banner ads.  so no store to add to that.

http://stephdelineated.blogspot.com/2007/01/i-wish-i-had-written-this.html

note these two paragraphs:

"In this country, there are almost twice as many neurosurgeons as there are professional illustrators. There are eleven times as many certified mechanics. There are SEVENTY times as many people in the IT field.

So, given that they are less rare, and therefore less in demand, would it make sense to ask your mechanic to work on your car for free? Would you look him in the eye, with a straight face, and tell him that his compensation would be the ability to have his work shown to others as you drive down the street?"