Quote - blondie999 - we did, up until 8 months ago.  It was an admin decision NOT A SITE STAFF DECISION.  If you have any problems regarding the situation, admin@renderosity.com is the place to send any comments or ideas, because they don't visit the forums often.  However, keep in mind that since this is an 8 month old decision, not much consideration may be made to change it.  Plus, it's not like this was a barely noticed announcement.  If you go back to threads in march, there are even more animated and heated threads regarding the situation.

estherau -  This is first and foremost a learning forum.  The complaints we get are when commercial and freebie posts are drowning out the learning and discussion threads.  That's why we made separate forums for commercial and freebie posts.   

Yeah they didn't listen then and they're not listening now. it was a bad decision back then and its a bad decision now  the reason we are up in arms now is because it took you guys this long to get all crackdown on us and stuff.

 claiming that vendors were complaining that it was costing them sales doesn't work... how do they know? It cant be costing you a load of business I mean look at Daz they let us post stuff from other stores in their forums  all the time and they are rakin it in hand over fist so that  "it loses us business" crap wont fly.