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A user here asks a question to another user with inside knowledge about the development of the software.  That user was rebuked for raising concerns and expressing preferences.

That is simply false.

Whatever - I have read all the comment.  I stick with what I've said.  You are welcome to disagree.

You read but did not understand or connect the dots. Also you've not been clear. I was going to just ignore all this and let us all move on, but you've got some axe to grind, so let's have at it.

Which user do you mean when you said a user here asks a question?  Which user was rebuked for raising concerns? What were the concerns you speak of and on what basis do you presume that user, which you need to name for me, is qualified to express these concerns?

Since I didn't insult anybody, but I have several times been insulted by others in this thread, I'm a bit puzzled and you need speak more plainly. At the moment, my opinion is you are severely misinterpreting something.

My response will depend on what statements you're referring to and who made them.

You also need to explain to me the justification for ignoring my thousands of contributions to this community and just making the blanket assumption that I'm acting in some way that is unacceptable to you for no reason.

Consider - if somebody is obnoxious and I say they are (which I didn't, by the way) and they in fact are obnoxious, but you think I'm not supposed to react as if they are obnoxious, then you're suggesting that it is not acceptable to rebuke this person. And yet, that is EXACTLY what you and several others have unjustifiably done to me. I wrote the "shite" software being discussed here. I built what SM told me to build. I do not tell SM what to build and sell. You people are not my customers, SM are my customers. You pay them - they pay me. How they make money is related to how I make money, but those are separate transactions, with separate responsibilities and separate areas of control. I have made decisions with their instructions, but they have not made any decisions based on any instructions from me. Any accusations to the contrary are insulting. The same shit happened just before the Poser 8 release. That is what I was referring to when I said I was unwilling to negotiate engineering decisions with users. The engineering decisions are negotiated with SM, and the decisions were made by SM, using information that only SM and I have, not the users in this forum. The people mouthing off here about architecture choices were not involved and do not have all the information necessary to form an opinion that carries any weight. Users can have opinions about specific features and specific issues of usability, but they cannot decide for SM what their overall product strategy and marketing strategy should be, especially when it involves more than just Poser and how it involves more is a trade secret.

If you guys think it's OK to slam me for what is in Poser, you're wrong, and you're rude. It is not my product. If you don't like what is in it, or how it is built, take it up with SM, not with me. I was just providing some "insider" info as you put it, and people erroneously made the assumption that the info I reveal is the reflection of my desires and my decisions. That is just f'ing rude because that is not the case at all. Poser is SM's product and I am just one of the cogs that produces it according to their instructions. I am a better cog than they've ever seen before, but I'm still just a cog.

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)