Quote - I liked the nonsense justification "we have to pay for the service somehow, would you prefer site usage fees?"

IMHO, Bobby was just airing his frustration.  He doesn't speak for the Admin as to WHY things were done the way they were done. 

None of us know the hows and whys right now.  I'm sure that helping to pay for the bandwidth that is inevitably going to be used was a PART of it, but not the whole thing.  Yes, I agree, sometimes, our marketing staff goes a bit overboard with advertising, but it's not to spite you guys.  It's not like Jason, Debbie, and Preston sit in their offices with little devil's horns and pitchforks and come up with new ways to piss off the Poser forum.  They're office jocks.  They do what they think will be a great idea from feedback from a ton of customers.  One of the feedback items that we get on a regular basis here is "I can't download freebie X that's been in the freestuff a week.  What do I do?"  Our best answer is to contact the creator, and wait.  That's more than likely where the idea for us to host the freebies (something that's been asked for for YEARS by the general membership) came from.  I think they were just overzealous when they made it mandatory.  And, you know what?  I'm sure that something OTHER than editing the HTML will be worked out.  The Admin team isn't stupid, they know when they've pissed you off.  They also know when it's legit, and when people are complaining just because it's awesome to complain.  They know you guys are legitimately upset by this, and they ARE looking into it.  Just like it took a while to implement this and get it going, it will take a little bit to fix.

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