Quote - JenX- In all fairness, the original rule was around because you couldn't ask a question or post a tip without it being drowned out of the forum with commercial posts.  That's why we made the MP forum in the first place.  Well, that was before I came on staff, but still.

That isn't accurate. So overy exxagerated. It was not so bad. Noone was drowned. I was here during that period and before as an active member; not someone who posted elsewhere and occassionally came here. It was a problem, then too, because the rules were never consistant.

Two periods in time are being confused.

The Product Showcase birth, many years ago, resulted from an earlier wave of complaints and a desire to have a place to show off products since the forums were a very popular site feature. At the time, commrcial themed threads were very popular with all the discussion you are saying is so good to have. But back then, that popularity lead to resentment, which lead to a lot of complaints.

So to fix the issue they created the Product SHowcase Forum.
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=606232

The issue of people avoiding Product Showcase continued into 2003. The problem was similar. Some threads advert, promo, wip threads, usually about Daz figures, weren't being moved to Product showcase. More resentment ensued.
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=1374482&page=1

In 2004 there was a surge of forum rules. Brokering was at it's height. There were many sour grapes in the forums who frequently/actively griped about brokers talking about their items. Several rules and changes happened during a short period of time and were very severe. Nothing unrelated to the use of Poser was allowed.

Complaint and debate, much liek PP Chix Coop, took most of the OT thread stress. So to get around the issuein the Poser forum, people would post a pic of a poser figure and then say "Btw.....".
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=1680787

The suggestion of a toggle feature to simply hide commercial posts has been suggested for over 7 years. They say they listen?

The best suggestions from the past have been

1. A visibility toggle for topic flags like nudity, commercial, etc. (ignored)
2. A content discussion forum.

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