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Acadia,

I will say that I can't see posting the freebie links in the other forums now that we have a freestuff forum. My push will be to allow any linking to freestuff items in the Renderosity Freestuff forum. Just as the Product showcase is for all commercial posts, I see the Freestuff forum being for all freestuff links.

But what about threads where someone is looking for something in particular?  Sometimes they ask for freebies  only and sometimes the request is for either or it's not specified. What are those of us who reply to help supposed to do?  Find the item and because it' happens to be a  "freebie", go and create a thread in the Free Stuff Forum  with the link, then go back to the person's thread  in the Poser Forum and reply with a link to the thread we created in the Free Stuff Forum?! That's just plain nonsense if that's what is going to be suggested that we do.

Then there is the for sale items. Currently the only ones banned from posting links to for sale items are merchants advertising their own wares, in those cases they have to post in the Product Showcase Forum, but none of the rest of us have to when directing people to items or to sales.

The Product Showcase is for all commercial posts made by the merchant selling those products.   We the non merchant members can post links to for sale items in the Poser Forum in order to point people to items they are seeking, or to give the heads up on a great sale taking place. I know I for one take advantage of sales because Poser is an expensive hobby, and I know that many times if it weren't for someone posting a link to a sale I would have missed out!

Why is the Free Stuff Forum going to be different and require everyone to post freebie links in there regardless of whether the freebie is their own or not? The ban of posting free stuff links in other forums is not only for the freebie creator (as it is in the Product Showcase Forum), but for all members. That's just not right.

You want to ban the posting of all freebie links in the Poser Forum and make it so that they can only be posted in the Free Stuff Forum.  Are we then to conclude that all commercial links regardless of who makes them are to now be made in the Product Showcase Forum?

If that is the case then any and all posts in the Poser Forum where someone is looking for something will go unanswered, because I for one am not going to go Forum to Forum creating threads so I can go back and link the person to a freebie (or commercial) link  that I created in another forum to answer their question. 

lIn addition, people won't know where to make their posts so they will be posting multiple threads just to cover their basis if the item is a wish, a freebie or a commercial item:

1. Freebie Forum

2. Product Showcase Forum

3. Wishlist Forum  with a possible mention in the 3D Modelling Forum because many posters there don't read the Withlist or  Product Showcase Forum, because they are too busy modelling.

I'm sorry if I'm being difficult where this issue is concerned, but banning the posting of all freebie links in any forum other than the Free Stuff Forum, is a really, really, really badly thought out idea and it's only going to

EDIT: Even sites like Daz and Poser Pros allow people to post freebie links and commercial links in their forum threads in order to fasciliate helping fellow members. They may have a specific forum for freebies, but that is only for people advising those of nice freebies, advertising their own freebies, or people asking for a specific freebie.  Posts with links to freebie and commercial items are still allowed in the other forums in order to help other members.

It sounds to me like Renderosity is trying to ban all posting of freebie links, even those in threads that are in answer to someone's generic question.

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