I'm going to discuss this with the entire admin team again with the concerns brought up by the Poser members.

What  everyone needs to understand is we haven't changed any guidelines about this in a very long time. The only thing recently to happen is the guideline is being enforced more consistently since we have a large enough poser staff to stay on top of it.  The problem is the whole forum gets over run by postings advertising products/sales/promotions offsite and that is not at all fair to our Renderosity vendors who aren't allowed to do this either. They have a forum/gallery here to advertise their Renderosity stores and they use it to do just that.  We made the decision to make the Showcase forum/gallery to be Renderosity vendors only due to business reasons so then the you have members who started using this forum to advertise and promote all these things offsite so heavy it was ridiculous. That hurts it for everyone .
If I was a vendor here, I would be beyond upset about it personally.

I will bring this up next week in our admin meeting and get back to you all here as soon as I can.

Please be patient