I, being a freebie provider, have no issue with the advertising... what has irked me is that i host my freebies on sharecg... that's where everyone knows to look... and was adding a link here with a pic so that new people could find and access my items... most people coming into Renderosity looking for freebie items are not going to come into the forums looking for freebie downloads... they'll simply click the freebies button and start downloading... case in point... since i stopped being able to direct people to my portfolio i'm not getting any where close to the interest or feed back that i was when i was able to post to the freebies here in the freebies area... and i'm sure i'm not the only one having that issue... we were not "highjacking" anyone... simply posting in different sites to bring more attention to our works... and there-in lies part of the problem...

Also... i want to keep my items in one main hosting area... that way if problems are reported with my items it's easy for me to pull them.. make corrections... and repost... and if i have to store files here, on sharecg, (and every other site i belong to individually) i have to do 3 times the work every time an issue gets reported... because now instead of pulling stuff from one central source... i would have to go to every site i had files stored at and replace them individually... now i don't know about others here... but i belong to many sites... and it would take hours for me to go through them all individually if i had to replace or repost something....