Wow! What a can of worms. 

I stopped posting at CG Network, due to the amount of patronising dick-headed comments that the use of Poser generated.  Some guy even claimed that I was somehow "disrespecting" people who produce their own models by using it and daring to post it there.  It's an age-old (well, as old as Poser) argument.  I've got a degree in Fine Art and have never met a painter yet who ground their own paints (never mind mining the pigments form the ground) or made their own brushes - you use the tools to hand.  I used to be a real-world modelmaker and special effects technician here in the UK and know for a fact that professionals use every trick and tool avaialble to them to speed up production.  To my mind, the amount of effort expended to produce a piece bears no relationship to how "worthy" it is - it's about the end product, and how you produce it is up to you.

You never see any of the best artists on these sites stooping to mud-slinging about applications - I looked up the people who made the most denigrating comments about Poser on my posts - not one had ever posted a single piece of work, which to me speaks volumes.  Archair critics and navel-gazers; like someone said, leave them to their toys.

My self-build system - Vista 64 on a Kingston 240GB SSD, Asus P5Q Pro MB, Quad 6600 CPU, 8 Gb Geil Black Dragon Ram, CoolerMaster HAF932 full tower chassis, EVGA Geforce GTX 750Ti Superclocked 2 Gb, Coolermaster V8 CPU aircooler, Enermax 600W Modular PSU, 240Gb SSD, 2Tb HDD storage, 28" LCD monitor, and more red LEDs than a grown man really needs.....I built it in 2008 and can't afford a new one, yet.....!

My Software - Poser Pro 2012, Photoshop, Bryce 6 and Borderlands......"Catch a  r--i---d-----e-----!"