kalon opened this issue on Jun 28, 2007 ยท 104 posts
EnglishBob posted Thu, 05 July 2007 at 5:33 AM
I'll add my own 2 pence here. I visit freestuff most days, and occasionally I contribute to it. Like Acadia I view all categories, since there's always a possibility that something in the 2D or 3D models categories will prove useful in Poser. I have no problem with folks trying to make money out of their freebies. There is some excellent stuff at ShareCG; I've noticed that some vendors have switched their stores to ShareCG freebies, presumably because they think they can make more money that way. Whether I'm being "used" or not is irrelevant to me. If I can get something I want, for free, then any complaint about how it's presented is carping. What I do have a problem with is the amount of time it takes to search through the day's submissions now. Next time I go on holiday, I am going to have to skip a lot of potentially worthwhile downloads because I simply won't have time to scan through a week's or a fortnight's uploads. The solution is to put more power in the hands of the fresstuff visitors, not to penalise the contributors. I would prefer a more sophisticated filtering system. At present we can look at all freebies, or some sub-category of them. If I could select from a list, choosing the categories I wanted to see and the ones I didn't, that would help a lot. The ability to ignore particular contributors would be welcome, but I believe technically more difficult, so I won't hold out much hope for that. ;) -- Edited to add: cross-posted with spedler... And evidently in agreement. :)