Quote - That is EXACTLY what I am proposing:)  

So the end result is, that the Freestuff forum will be for freestuff providers to announce any freestuff items that would like whether its Freestuff from Renderosity's freestuff area or if its a link to a freestuff item that hasn't been uploaded to our Freestuff area. Its a place to give feedback to the freestuff provider(s) and place "wishes" for future freestuff items you would like to see.

The software topic forums...ie, Poser, Bryce, etc can still have members helping members showing them links during a discussion or what have you. Or if you fun across something cool and you would like to share this cool thing you found with others in a specific forum.

So to give some examples,

This type of post would need to go into the Freestuff forum
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2694985  (good job Anton)  or

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2694543

**And this type of post would still be okay here in the Poser forum or whatever forum it relates to
**http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2669000  or

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2669009

Let me know if further clarification is needed or if we are on the same page :)

I feel this is a good compromise that will not change things too much and keep things consistent throughout the site in regards to how the Product Showcase works along with the Freestuff Forum. 

Thank you :)  So the majority of us can keep doing what we've been doing, and the only thing that is changing is where freebie creators announce their freebie offerings....regardless of the site they  have them hosted.

I can't speak for others, but that is a working model that I am happy to live with because all freebies will still be available to everyone :)

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