Quote - This site used to be a community of people sharing information about the product and the works they enjoy looking at, or the software they use. It is no longer that. It is entirely a commercial entity and the reason it exists is to fund merchants and site admins. This is a commercial reality.

Nothing more needs to be said.

IMHO this site has lost it's luster because of too many rules. And the fact that once something is set in place, it's pretty much like banging your head against concrete trying to reason with the powers that be that their decisions are not always the best ones or in the real best interests of the site as a whole.

You need members to sell things, and with rigid rules people leave, not only members, but also vendors and that's shooting the company in the foot. But it's not my foot, so I don't know why i care so much, but I do.

This site is certainly not the fun and educational place it was when I first signed up.  That really disappoints and saddens me a great deal.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi