Posetteforever was back up and I went over there to get some textures for the Vespa and it is offline again. Does anyone know if it is gone for good?

http://www.posetteforever.com/

The link works fine for me.

Nope!,

It's dead as a doornail.

Hmmm. Now I get a "The page isn't redirecting properly" error. But when I went earlier it worked fine.

IE 7 won't access it, and Mozilla accesses it but won't log me in with my PW and username. Must be server problems.

I have a yellow texture for the Vespa.. :D If you're familiar with the anime FLCL, it's what I modeled that particular texture after. I did it when I was rather bored.

Well, try Acadia's link now! O_M_G. First I can't join over there because my ISP is Earthlink, and now... well, I don't know what's going on. It's a shame, because I really like Posette's look.

Ok, it seems they have banned Renderosity links from accessing their site:

Quote - Hello, I'm the "403 Forbidden" error page of Posetteforever. You're here because you should not be here. The most common reasons of the appearing of this page is that you're directly coming from a link from a site that we consider "hostile" , like Renderosity (ask Karen Janes why...) . In this case, you can simply click the "go to" button of your browser or type the address manually: the page and the site will appear normally. We block referrers from that kind of sites as a part of our policy and don't want to be connected to them in any given way. Another reason could be that your IP address comes from a range of addresses that spammers or harvesters commonly uses, we have a system that takes directly control of them but sometimes we have just to ban a whole IP range. We use also to ban IP ranges that come from services that lurkes the site in a strange and aggressive way, for example, most of them come from China, while a Chinese couldn't probably reach the site anyway. Maybe you reach this page because you're David Hoadley. Sorry we don't like your sick porn crap, "man", rofl. If you think that we're wrong with your IP address send an email to posetteforever@spamcop.net , We'll check it as soon as possible and tell you the reason why. Fell free to send spam there, it's an address created to report spammers. You can even try to circumvent the barbed wire with a proxy or an anonymizer... Just try. Take care. Tormie & Posy and the Staff of Posetteforever

Personally I think that message is way too "high school" :rolleyes:

If you still want to go there, just paste their address to the address bar and go there that way.

"Ew ew ew! You can't come here from... there. Those Renderosity people have cooties!"

I guess this is where I have my choice of saying "LOL Internets" or "Internet. Serious business." :D

And yes, that is very high school, Acadia.

"We use also to ban IP ranges that come from services that lurkes the site in a strange and aggressive way (snip)" Can anyone explain this bit to me? I've not a clue what it means, but then I'm no internet genius.

Sounds to me like they are very "clickish" and if they don't like the way your ip looks or acts you're out.

Ye Gads, that is the stupidest crap I have ever head of. Dave and porn? He has some nudes, big deal. Piss on their Vespa. I'll buy the bike in the RMP. People there need to grow up.

eyes growing...heavy...too many...smileys...;) The download conditions are a bit agressive...;) got in by stopping at Google home page. So there...;)

Quote - "We use also to ban IP ranges that come from services that lurkes the site in a strange and aggressive way (snip)" Can anyone explain this bit to me? I've not a clue what it means, but then I'm no internet genius.

I suspect that it stems from this thread:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2733620&page=1

There was some editing and deleting done to a couple of posts due to personal attacks, so I think that he is upset with Renderosity for having censored him.

I'm still confused about how to lurk strangely and agressively. Are we referring to spiders?

They must have deleted offensive stuff from that thread. I JUST WANTED THE VESPA TEXTURES! And now it's WW3 over there????? These people sound like they need to be on meds for mental illness. I know that is harsh but I had a bad day and most of us have real problems - not "someone digitally boinked my beloved Posette" thread.

Hey Drifterlee!

http://wonderchef.pridelands.org/Renders/Test/FLCL.jpg

There ya go! It's nothing all that impressive.. but here's my awfully yellow texture of the Vespa. This was my first attempt at doing a texture for anything.. so it's terribly basic. :)

Thank you!

"Hello, I'm the "403 Forbidden" error page of Posetteforever. You're here because you should not be here. The most common reasons of the appearing of this page is that you're directly coming from a link from a site that we consider "hostile" , like Renderosity (ask Karen Janes why...) . In this case, you can simply click the "go to" button of your browser or type the address manually: the page and the site will appear normally. We block referrers from that kind of sites as a part of our policy and don't want to be connected to them in any given way. Another reason could be that your IP address comes from a range of addresses that spammers or harvesters commonly uses, we have a system that takes directly control of them but sometimes we have just to ban a whole IP range. We use also to ban IP ranges that come from services that lurkes the site in a strange and aggressive way, for example, most of them come from China, while a Chinese couldn't probably reach the site anyway. Maybe you reach this page because you're David Hoadley. Sorry we don't like your sick porn crap, "man", rofl. If you think that we're wrong with your IP address send an email to posetteforever@spamcop.net , We'll check it as soon as possible and tell you the reason why. Fell free to send spam there, it's an address created to report spammers. You can even try to circumvent the barbed wire with a proxy or an anonymizer... Just try. Take care. Tormie & Posy and the Staff of Posetteforever"

They left the P. out of my name.
David P. Hoadley

You're welcome! My old workplace had an employee that owned a Vespa identical to the one I made the texture for. So damn ugly with that yellow... but so nice. :D

There's an old render I did as soon as I'd finished the texture. Yes, it sucks. ^_^

Quote - They must have deleted offensive stuff from that thread

Yes, they did.

Quote - They left the P. out of my name. David P. Hoadley

Maybe they thought it was a silent P. :lol:

Quote - > Quote - They left the P. out of my name. David P. Hoadley

Maybe they thought it was a silent P. :lol:

Or maybe they have enough of their own P., that they don't feel in any need of mine.
David Platt Hoadley

Maybe somebody took the P.

Quote - Maybe somebody took the P.

If so, than somebody is really FULL of P.
David Platt Hoadley

Platt??? Was that a last name of a beloved ancestor? I never heard of it as a first name, although we had a neighbor years ago whose real name was Smith Dickie. Smith was his first name.

David, I wondered if you had Scottish ancestry.  I know it's common to take the mother's maiden name as a middle name for the first son.

Quote - David, I wondered if you had Scottish ancestry.  I know it's common to take the mother's maiden name as a middle name for the first son.

I'm the youngest in my family.  I have three older brothers and an older sister.

1. Peter Howland Hoadley
2. William Cox Dalzell Hoadley
3. Wells Hastings Hoadley 2nd (deceased in childhood before I was born).
4. Russell Southworth Hoadley (Twin)
5. Sherwood (Sheri) Hoadley (Twin)
6. Myself ;=D
   David Platt Hoadley

Totally awesome, Dave. I am English, Irish, Scotch and German and  no religion by choice after a horrible Catholic school  childhood. The nuns did a better job of turning me against religion than any terrorist with a bomb strapped against themselves. My grandfather was Scotch with the last name of Paterson with one T. My maiden name is Tilton, after the little town my father's people came from in England.

Well, seeing we're now talking heritage...

I'm English, Ukranian, French and Cree Indian.

1/4   English  (My Dad's father came from just outside Liverpool)
1/4   Ukranian  (My Mom's mother came from the Ukraine)
3/8   French  (My Mom's father was French, and my Dad's Mom was 1/2 French)
1/8   Cree (My Dad's mother was 1/2 Cree.

well, anyway, zygote created posette in 1997 and now, 11 yrs later,
those guys at that site put the last nail in her coffin IMVHO.  R.I.P., posette.

I propose we move to Terai Yuki.. :D She's not free, but damn she's so cute. :)

Quote - well, anyway, zygote created posette in 1997 and now, 11 yrs later,
those guys at that site put the last nail in her coffin IMVHO.  R.I.P., posette.

I don't know about that. But they sure aren't helping their site or repuation posting stuff like that. Very childish. I've never really bothered with that site other than to go and download the odd Mylochka hair because I believe she had some hosted there. But now she has them at ShareCG, so I have no need to go to their site.

But I feel badly for Posette fans. It does sound like it might be the beginning of the end for their website though, because they are destroying their repulation.

Without sounding TOO boastful, I think that their problem is with me.  Apparently I'm both too much a renegade and too innovative at the same time.  To date, since I first posted them:

1. PosetteV3 - posted 18 April, 2007 - 1236 downloads
2. P4DukeM3 - posted 15 June, 2007 - 531 downloads
3. PosetteeVe3 - posted 12 July, 2007 - 757 downloads
4. Dphoadley's Fan Club T-Shirt - posted 24 August, 2007 - 55 downloads
5. PosetteV3wG (PosetteV3 with genitals) - posted 28 August, 2007 - 1115 downloads
6. P4CatSuitV3 (P4 Catsuit remapped to take V3 2nd Skins) -posted 9 September, 2007 - 443 downloads
7. Annimation: PosetteV3's Nude Ballet - posted 12 October, 2007 - 992 downloads
8. Three Posettes by Acadia - posted 12 December, 2007 - 523 downloads
9. GirletteV3 (my PosetteV3 body-Daz's Girl's head hybrid) - posted 21 March, 2008 - 919 downloads
10. Peasant Cottage - posted 28 March, 2008 - 480 downloads

Posette isn't dead, she's alive and well and kicking at Renderosity!
D. Platt H. ;=D

PS: Maybe we could make our own Posette forum here?

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1576566&member

Quote - Without sounding TOO boastful, I think that their problem is with me. 

But you blamed ME for the last closure of the site! Here I thought I was Special! LOL! You have been busy Doctor Frankenstein! And Great job at doing all o those hybrids!

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1512412

Quote - > Quote - Without sounding TOO boastful, I think that their problem is with me. 

But you blamed ME for the last closure of the site! Here I thought I was Special! LOL! You have been busy Doctor Frankenstein! And Great job at doing all o those hybrids!

Well, at least MY monsters don't go around terrorizing the poor simple villagers, or tearing up the countryside! ;=D
D. Platt H

Well I don't make monsters.... I make messes. Happy April Fools Day!

I did something even worse. I left a couple nudes in my job portfolio and really embarrassed a prospectice employer. I forget how right-winged people are here in the US.

Quote - I did something even worse. I left a couple nudes in my job portfolio and really embarrassed a prospectice employer. I forget how right-winged people are here in the US.

According to Jim Farris, all those ex-hippies got really up-tight and even more conservative thatn their parents ever were as they got older.  Something to do with having to justify the fact that,  while THEY did drugs and slept around with four or five people a night, most of whom they'd never even met before, their little darlings should NOT.  The Dichotomy was apparently too much for them.
D Platt Hoadley

I was a hippie and I never slept with a bunch of people, LOL! Guess I missed out on all the fun, hahahaha!

I was never a hippie, and the most powerfull thing I ever smoked was McBarren's Cavendish Mixture.  And now I WISH that I'd been a little less inhibited, and slept around a bit back then! (sigh -ah for the snows of yester years!)
D Platt H

Seems I was in the wrong generation. I wasn't around for the "free love" generation of the 70s, and I didn't have any teachers that ever hit on me or such.

I feel that I've sorely missed something. :)

We basically just dressed like hippies to look "cool, man!" Posette really does look like plastic in that render. I always thought the Poser people did without textures.

Good one, ockham.

From Acadia's post in the other thread: "Quote - " After almost five years I and Posy decided to close the site, forever . Yes, it is a sudden decision but we can't stand any longer having relations with other people, this is because the human nature is no more then an animal in the jungle: ready to assault another individual, unable to stand the presence of people that think differently from their own way of thinking. "

I can't access the site from anywhere, just when I wanted to have some "relations" with them, LOL!

I was thinking the same thing - considering all the work DPH has put into keeping Posette going, mounting a personal attack on him is a) very ungrateful and b) against their own TOS, surely? > Quote - Posette have something to be say about this!

ROFL. After Ockham's and SamTherapy's efforts, I'm going to be fired anyway for laughing during the hours of daylight, so here's one I did when Victoria first came out. Please excuse the dead fish stares. We were all newbies once. :D