Quote - I understand your reasoning, Jen, but I can also see Anton's point. It is a bit of a double standard, and it certainly wouldnt stop the more unscrupulous merchant from saying to one of his friends, "Hey, do me a favour -- post something about my new product available at X!" and so friend does, under the guise of "Wow, check this out!" -- and before long you still have a sneaky advert that came, circuitously, from the creator.

I dont like the commercial threads either, but to stop them like this seems more arbitrary than anything else.

Just my 0.02 -- which is available now for $19.95 at... oh wait. Sorry about that.

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No, it doesn't keep unscrupulous merchants from getting their buddies to ask questions and or make "this is cool!!" posts about their products.  We keep our eyes out for those posts, and they tend to follow a pattern.  I'm pretty sure that some folk think we're complete morons and that they're getting away with it.  Heck, that goes for any TOS compliance/violation. 

However, again, I'm going to ask, where do we draw the line?  If a member comes in and asks "Hey, where can I get a cool-looking pirate ship for Poser?", should we not allow members to post links to locate said item?  Or, if a merchant has a python script and/or other tool in the MP, and has questions, sure, the most logical place to ask would be to email the merchant...but, logic tells me that if the product has been there a while, there are a few people that may have it and may actually have a few hints and tips that the merchant themselves may not even have thought of.  Heck, there are regular models that some people have a hard time with.

For example, Aery Soul doesn't support DAZ|Studio...their prerogative.  There are people in the community that can fix broken models and their morphs.  However, a new user might not know this.  So, noticing that their Litsure hair (for instance) is used in a render by someone using D|S, they ask in the D|S forum how it works.  After a few people hem and haw at how they really should know how to rig for D|S (really?   Every merchant should know every possible program an end-user might use the figure in??), someone answers with the fix, which, btw, is:

"Open the .pz2 files found in the "Liltsure-Mrphs" folder. Do a search for the phrase "valueParm" and change all instances of it to "targetGeom." "

Now, if the original questioner wouldn't have been able to mention and/or link to the product in question, they'd still be confused as hell, and probably disenchanted with the whole thing.

Anyway, like I said, I've brought it to Admin attention, but I'm not going to promise that there will be stricter changes.  I for one hope not.  I personally don't like the latest change, however, I understand the need for it.  There's a difference between being open and hospitable and being taken advantage of.

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