I don't mean to get off on a rant here....

No, wait, yes I do.

I'm looking at the thread, and I'm a bit confused.

If we, the Merchants place an obviously commercial thread for a new product, then we should put it in a place that no one in their right minds would go(the same layer of Heck as TV commercials), but if my little friend Destiny(not a real person) posts the same thread anywhere else, that's fine.

Do I have this right?

What's to stop people from hiring the Mongol Hordes of Advertising to drop in and go nuts?

But, if I post something not available at the RMP, I get deleted for that, too.

The idea therefore becomes that there must not be a world outside Renderosity, or that commercialism doesn't exist beyond the Marketplace forum/gallery.

I don't exist in a vaccuum, and neither do the rest of you. Everything we do is credited, so our galleries become an advertisement for the things we use.

Our entire lives in western society are commercials, from the cologne Anton wears, to the jeans Conniekat's wearing, the restaraunt Jen eats at, to the car I drive. If we all are using something, someone else will too, because of it.

Shall we remove all those things from the face of Renderosity as well?

So what happens if I post an image in my gallery that consists of nothing but things I've made myself, and put on-sale at... Say 3DArena?

Shall I not credit it?

For the record, I do have items onsale, but not at 3DA. Shawn was convienient, and most of the Poserverse has heard of 3DA, at the very least. Safe for an example.

Most of those items await onsale dates here, as well.

I won't mention which ones, nor where they might be found. A dilligent search would turn them up easily.

However, it seems to me that a [commercial] tag would make more sense than banishing us to Heck(and obscurity) for being a vendor.

I'm gonna get off my soapbox now, and let you get back to your day.

I'm going to get off my soapbox now, and let you get back to your day