Yup, we dont host the files themselves, and we know alot of our providers use free hosting sites..I even started a thread pertaining to that..giving some links to sites that host files for free and so on.

The freestuff area is a way for members to advertise their free items..thats a given. What we did with starting the freestuff forum, is to give those providers a place to post about their items, new or old...get them some recognition..as sometimes the only recognition they get is in the galleries..and thats only sometimes.

We are not trying to prevent anyone from advertising anything..what we are trying to do is to set up specific places for this to occur instead of it being all over the place. We have the Product Showcase Gallery, for advertising of MP items in rendered form, then we have the Product Showcase Forum set up for feedback, requests, etc for MP items...this is just the same thing set up for Freestuff.....Think of the Freestuff area as a gallery..we just set up a place for discussion for those items.

Altho someone who wanted to do harm could very well wait until an item is approved and change the file to release all kinds of nasties, we trust our memberbase more than that...but we still have to go thru proper procedures..I just dont see the harm in that at all

~Jani

Renderosity Community Admin
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