Quote - @Laurie: Thanks for your reply.

First part of your posting I was not aware of that.

Generally I have to say I've read the sticky post regarding commercial postings a few days ago. I thought it's common sense what commercials are. Free stuff that is linked to sites where one has to register is viewed as commercial for most Internet users. There should be a difference between a forum and the market. But never mind, the original poster posted it only once, my critic was harsh in this case and maybe my view on it is not shared by the majority of the users here.

But the new trend is in a lot of threads now "free stuff" ads for commercial websites turn up. So this is a way to undergo the sticky post 'Regarding "commercial" posts" and there should be some space where on can read something without interrupted by advertisements.

For example search for user '3dream' and you know what I mean. In every second Poser thread he announces he had created a face morph for Alyson with a link to his website. I don't even know if it's free, because he does not mention it. This kind of postings somehow damage the intention of a forum where users exchange their experiences with the software, workarounds etc. That's all what I wanted to say about it.

Well, nearly every site that contains freebies now contains some type of commercial section. There's no getting around it anymore... I can give you a list as long as my arm.

This I don't really consider an advertisment per se: the original poster was not announcing the "store", but the freebie. And as far as I can tell, the poster does not own the store.

As for 3Dream - yes, I've seen them. The Alyson morph is free (I checked right off) and he should mention that. I'll write him and say something to him and that he's to post it in freebies because it's HIS freebie, can you see the distinction? I can see how people are turned off by his postings of late. I guess he just felt he was doing everyone a favor. I mean, we can't really know his motivation. I do know he doesn't speak english very well at all and maybe does not understand how people are objecting to his posts.

Other than that, posting freebie sources has always been allowed here because they are Poser specific or relevant to Poser. Now, if the OP was giving a link to someone's new kitchen widget, then I'd have to wonder a little more about it ;o).

Laurie