A great many people visit this site for much more than the Marketplace - information being one of the many things people like to get when they come here. All you're doing is cutting off one more source of information to your visitors, and forcing them to go to sites like DAZ where they can find out what's new beyond the borders of the site.

It's a foolish move which can only hurt Renderosity, the users and the community at large. If DAZ decide to retaliate by instituting a similar poilcy, that will hurt Rosity too. Although frankly, I don't think DAZ are so narrow-minded.

And re the DAZ '1 commercial post a week' policy - It's in the TOS to prevent spamming and flooding the forums with commercial posts. Not only that, it applies to DAZ PAs who sell their content there too. It isn't just for products at other sites. I think it's a sensible policy. Who really needs to post more than once a week for new products? Apart from spammers, no one, I think.

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