I for one am glad to have read this thread.

Frankly, I don't care about who posts, or what -- commercial or off-topic or otherwise. I just don't like that Renderosity doesn't seem (to me) to be quite the friendly and intelligent place it once did.

And though I haven't said much, I suppose I have been privately blaming the moderators for it.

I have been feeling, for a while, that the moderators were being too much of a pain, not just on this topic, but when it comes to OT threads as well -- which I am almost afraid to participate in these days.

In any case, I think I now better understand some of the difficulty, i.e., the fine line, and as such from now on I will make an effort to think twice before I blame the moderators, privately or otherwise.

I do very much hope, though, that something can be done to restore some of the friendliness and intelligence which seem now to be in somewhat shorter supply here than they once were ...