I don't get why it's such a bad thing for a creator of an item to post a link to it here within the forums of a site that engages in sales of poser content??????
Also, I find it rather unrealistic to have a hobby that heavily depends on content from other commercial sources, use a forum from one of the commercial sites, and then resent that products are being advertised.

It's a bit like walking into a department store during christmas time, walking by a cosmetics counter and getting a whiff of fragrance, and then getting all upset that they're advertising fragrance where it's being sold.

Is that like some sort of a lack of common sense?

I'm not sure what the exact rule reads. no advertizing or no external links, or no product promotions or what not. I agree about what BlackSpartan is saying about uptightness.

One thing that I did notice is that many people whom are most vocal in the forums and want to drive the diorection of the site don't seem to be the ones whom are spending money here. At least they are not the majority. So I suppose many forumites don't participate in or even resent the commercial aspect of it... but yet choose to come to a commercial site to talk about their hobby. A site and forum which is provided to them at the cost of those whom do buy stuff. If there wasn't a commercial component to it, they wouldn't have a place to come to!!! But yet somehow the commercial aspect of it gets villified. Sheesh! 
My brain is going to get a divide by zero (common sense) error here!

Don't advertize your commercial product, Don't restrict commercial use of your freebies, don't advertize someone else's commercial work, talking about your upcoming marketplace piece or god forbid a thread turining into a marketplace product WIP is bad form; don't get excited about a commercial release and post a link to it....

Why don't people whom hate commercial aspect of it get themselves a private commercial free bulletin board. Maybe the cost, time and efforts of keeping one up will be a rude awakening. But then again, I see some of the same people whom complain about the commercial aspect of it saying they want to be able to use freebies around here to make a few bucks for themselves, and resent the effort of having to keep track of copyrights. What is that? Jealousy? Envy? Case give it to memememe because if someone else got it I should have it tooo, and screw whomever I take advantage of in the process?

Sure, the rules get all mangled in a bass ackwards manner and end up contradicting one another when we hap-hazardly try to accomodate whomever is screaming the loudest at the moment... and when we try to accomodate people's nonsensical emotional reactions.

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