I see the buy trend more often than help these days. Many older members I have chatted with have noticed this too.

Good for merchants, not that good for the community as a whole. Many don't want to learn. They want it done for them. I have seen and recieved myself, insults from these people for trying to help. So I think many are finding it easier to point them to the marketplace and not bother to tell how to do it themselves. Others are newbies that that is all they know and in thier way trying to help.

There are those that feel the need to push thier friends stuff in every thread they can and the merchants that do the same thing. There are also those that think that you should buy the most expensive item to do what you need even if there is a cheeper or free item that does the same thing.

Pointing out a certain Poser rigging book that has been around for a few years is a good thing. Many of the others are just rehashed topics that have already been discussed on the foums of all the sites and are making money off of others ideas. Which may be the way for newbie  to go because the forums are not the exchanging of ideas it was in the past. Forums now seem to be focused more on Spaming, Promoting freinds and OT's. That was always there in the background but seems to be the main theme these days.

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