Quote - Are you contenting that the vast majority of Renderosity users were sick and tired of being told about free gifts in the main Poser forum? It's just commonsense to assume that the vast majority of the people didn't mind free stuff announcements in the main forum since people tend to like gifts. The only conceivable objections would be raised by merchants who coveted the permission to advertise in the main forum. The fact that the few were heeded enough that existing policy was changed should tell you that merchants have more influence around here than the average forum user, though the influence isn't yet absolute. If it was, we'd have creators starting advertisement threads in the main forum.

I am not contending that the "vast majority" desire this, or that.  I wasn't the one who contended that the "vast majority" held to any particular attitude or opinion.  In fact, my post was to point out that claiming to speak for the "vast majority" is a mistake in logic at its base.  And as for it being a matter of "common sense" that the "vast majority" of users think this way, or that way -- like all such assumptions: it carries with it a built-in danger of being wrong.

Quote - I think Renderosity wants the greatest good for the greatest number, within the context of the greatest profit and the least flack.

Sounds like standard business practice to me; albeit worded in such a way as to imply that standard business practice is a negative thing.  Please the largest number of people = have a more successful business.  Such an arrangement can always be portrayed in a negative light, of course.  But it remains as the way that a successful business operates.

BTW - there still appears to be the underlying assumption being made here that "the vendors" represent some sort of a monolith -- and that all of "the vendors" are a homogeneous group whose interests all run in only one direction -- and who therefore all see eye-to-eye with each other.  As I mentioned earlier, and I'll repeat it again here for emphasis: "the vendors" are most definitely not a monolithic group, any more than the general members & forum participants are.  "The vendors" don't all agree among themselves as to what should be done, or as to how it should be implemented.  So the contention that "the vendors" -- as a monolithic group -- are behind a given decision is about like saying that everyone in the Poser forum agrees with one another over what should and what should not be posted in the Poser forum.  Hint: they don't.

Quote - Do I care enough about forum policy to not regret the time I took to write this response? umm…no

That's good.  And it's also good that no one suggested that you should regret it.

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