Quote - That's the culture here; and while in the little cultural vacuum we live in, it works okay.  When you go outside, e.g. to cgSociety or some other culture, or apply that reasoning to most other creative endeavors that are to be shown to your peers, it fails disastrously.

I would expect it to fail on places like CG society and similar places. Standards are different, and much higher over there. Personally, I will always have a greater degree of admiration for work that was done well 100% from scratch, then for the work that was done with aid of pre-made content. Whether I do it or someone else does it.
Trying to compare the two would be like comparing apples and oranges.
To me Poser work that relies mostly on other people's content is a form of a collage. Digital 3D collage.
Something done from scratch... it's more like life drawing, or sculpture.
Both can be valid forms of artistic expression, but one has a lot higher degree of technical difficulty (in a way of skills) then the other. Those familiar with the amount of work involved will take that into the account when judging a piece.

Most people that I've seen burned on higher end places are those whom walk in using poser's pre-made content and insist on their work being on the same level as a piece done from scratch. Well, it isn't. Even lot of the artists making content for poser wouldn't get top accolades over there. Not because of 'poser' but because there's a lot of Poser content that isn't top notch.
Frankly, my patience gets short too when someone does half the work I did on something, and insists on equal rewards - with just about anything in life.

I'm often baffled with people whom overvalue their artistic skills, and get their panties all bunched up when the reality hits them. This is not unique to poser... I just got done watching American Idol, and was remembering auditions. There's plenty of people whom think they are a lot better then they really are... in many aspects if life. We have them here, and CG society has them too. Sometimes they clash.

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