@ kirwin   "But in some sense, it would be a tragedy to leave out just one person who is equally deserving of such recognition."

With this I quite agree  - and for this same reason perhaps trying to create a formalized Hall of Fame would be a mistake.  There's always the chance of slighting someone very well deserving - for instance the people who discovered and disseminated all the work-arounds in the early days that allowed Poser to perform beyond certain limitations and also raised the bar for future releases of the program itself.. Some of the names are no longer familiar or oft mentioned.

I also agree that the list would be so long that it would take up pages.

However to the objection that the makers of the program aren't  mentioned, I would say they get credit when the program itself is opened or else in the About Poser dropdown. 

The arguement that users themselves should get credit simply for using is just silly  though the very questions they ask might inspire the innovators towards finding  solutions. Their exceptional results might get  honoured but that's another story.

Merchants get their acknowledgements when their product is bought and get praised in forums.

Some freebie providers become eventual merchants and get their appreciation when their efforts are financially rewarded.

And some keep on sharing anyway and divulge their methods and innovations freely, take face-off or PhilC or svdl etc as an example.  You can duplicate their methods if you don't care to pay for ease of use - because they share it with the rest of us.  

So these people who have extended Poser  and the ones who never charge for some of their efforts, some of them absolutely brilliant, are the ones I think should be honoured  by  special mention.  And I don't think it's anything to do with any kind of "celebrity cult"

So if it goes no further than this thread at least we get a chance here to demonstrate our appreciation and let them know the esteem they're held in.  So keep on adding. :)