Quote - tainted, The freestuff forum is there now for a reason and it should be used as such. The same applies with the Product Showcase as it has for sometime now.  Each forum is designed for specific type posts. BUT at the same time I don't want to take away the ability for providers to let a particuliar group know if they choose to by linking to their advertising post in the appropriate Freestuff forum. 

I know that not everyone is going to agree with everything but I feel we have made a good compromise here.

 

Problem is, it's the wrong reason...which is par for the course here. I rknow you believe you are doing something good for the community by limit linking to freestuff in the forums, but you really aren't. By and large a freestuff forum is a good idea for if it was being used in the ways I stated in my last post. But you've added another restriction with this linking thing. Seems Renderosity can't give anything without taking something away. 

Your compromose isn't really any compromise. It boggles my mind how you can treat freestuff the same way you treat products for sale. Linking to them in the forums does no harm, does not cause an uproar, and is not something anyone asked to have stopped. The freestuff forum is a grand idea...but restricting providers to linking to their freestuff only in that forum is asinine.

While I, for one, appreciate your willingness to compromise...somehow the compromises always seem to be in favor of what you (collective you) want, and we are left with agreeing to disagree. Many of us get very tired of the "take it or leave it" attitude around here...and many good, helpful, innovative members have made the decision to "leave it" as a result of that attitude in the past. We have lost much in the way of help, sharing, tutoring, and friendship as a result. It's done nothing but change this site from a dynamic, active center ...to a bland limbo.

You may be making a ton of money in your marketplace, but your community has suffered as a result.

It's all fun and games...
Until the flying monkeys attack!!!