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Kendra, I think you jumped the gun here... Anton is not advocating tightening the rules.

I know that.  But they aren't likely to change things back to where individuals can advertise their own works in this forum.  If people continue to complain about the fact that "friends" can do it for the individual where else do you see this potentially going? 

For what it's worth, he's right.  The playing field is not level.  But it never was and it's very true that the squeaky wheel gets attention.  Sometimes it's not the attention we want and since the change Anton wants is not going to happen, the alternate very well could. 

Yeah, what we have now may very well be the case of  'leave good enough alone'

on the other hand, please feel free to voice your opinion over in the poll thread - it's related this topic. Perhaps the admins are reading.

I'm actually surprized by how many people are saying they wouldn't be bothered with allowing commercial posts in here, as long as they can be tagged. Much like they are in DAZ commons. It appeard to be 3-4 people in favor of this to one opposing it.

So as much as I fear there may be people screaming about things being uneven and rules tightening even more, which I would hate... after reading answers to the poll, I'm not sure if my fear is not a bit overblown.

I don't know how flexible bondware is with little database related changes like adding more tags and checkboxes to forums etc.  I gather that Renderosity is in part a demo site for bondware, so if a database change of that nature is a PITA to do in bondware, that's not a plus for bondware. Flexibility to do changes like that is pretty much a necessity in theese kinds of storefront/community type online platforms.  I know a little bit about databases, and online databases. Having it programmatically difficult to add a few checkboxes and categories is not a good thing.

The way Anton brought it all up, I couldn't tell for the longest time if he was for or against allowing commercial posts in here. Sounded like he was against, and complaining that as of late some have drifted into commercial territory and hadn't been stopped and moved. I was thinking, oh, great, just what we need is tighter rules and someone pointing out that few threads are pushing the envelope and stirring malcontent. Looked like he was accusing admins of playing favoritisam towards a few threads that Anton pointed out.

Like he was trying to point to the admins some sort of an error of their ways - well, those kinds of things never go well. When I point to someone errors of their ways, it's usually when I hope to anger or frustrate them (in forum arguments), and can run off before there's a lot of backlash.

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