Good questions Anton. I'm sure there are many of us that wonder the same thing. But, do you really think your going to get an honest answer? The Mods only do what they are told to do and say and follow the guidelines of the PTB and you know the PTB are not going to answer you. ( Not meant as a dig at any Mod, some people like working with thier hands tied behind their back.  LOL)

I don't mind the odd freebie alert, though that last one was a bit lame with the need to jump through hoops to get. Now if it had contained a warning about the hassle ,it would have been a far more informative post and benifit the forum. (Don't take that the wrong way Acadia) The moving / censorship of freebie posts by the creator in this forum was a bad move.

The commercial threads is a fine line.

I don't find anything wrong with users discussing commercial products, good or bad. How else can the community know if the products or merchants are any good or problematic. But we don't need the spam. A fine line. With the new merchant rules that line got wider and easier to moderate but at a big loss to the community. So the only way to know what's going on with these other merchants is by user posts. Hmmm, back to that fine line now. LOL.

Conniekat8, your a merchant now so I can see why you would think that tagged commercial threads would be a good thing. But as you stated, you were not around when it was allowed. It was a nightmare to get any poser related questions answered. You use the Daz commons as an example and so will I.

The Daz common forum is a commercial spam and glorifed popularity posting. That and the flame war floor room for DS vs Poser and Daz forum vs Art Zone. Don't bother posting a real question there unless your one of the popular and that's not a guarentee, because it gets burried so fast from the other 3 types of post mentioned.

This forum was getting so bad from all this spam that even when asking for help with something, merchants would jump in and spam you with how you wouldn't be having these problems if you bought thier products. It was a nighmare. Any question posts were getting burried and lost so fast that it was a friggin lottery trying to get help.

Merchants were going as far as starting infomercials. Getting some friend to start a thread and then do that stupid infomercial routine.

No, that, "no commercial post," rule change was one of the best things that happened for this forum and we don't need it back. Yes I think the PTB went overboard with the last bit of rules, so we need a few loopholes to balance the scales a bit. Over all, I think the forum is fine.

Le't not prod that sleeping dog to much because you know ,from past experience, that it goes way overboard when wakened..