Yeah I remember some of those flame wars....it was before or about the time Renderosity was started wasn't it? There was a lot of mud slinging then as I was a beginner and on the Poser Forums. Got tired of ti really fast though.
A waste of bandwidth and time but even though that was going on there was as you say a lot of creative juice being shared at the time too. I was just starting out in Poser so I really didn't have a handle on all that was discussed but I got a lot out of it in other ways.
Too bad about PosetteForever though. I thought it was a good idea at the time.
Now we need one for V2 as well!  LOL