Quote - John, please don't feel attacked. Some of your posts have implied or asked "are you getting sick of these questions?" I only replied "Yes". Some of your ideas are thoughtfull, just don't belong under the Poser forum, maybe a general forum or a marketplace forum. One of the problems is your cute-sie topics. Make your subject clear and meaningfull. Don't make us read the post to find out you have advice for Smith Micro or the like. Use "OT" when you wish to chatter. keep posting to the galleries, ask and answer technical questions. This is a community and you have every right to be here, just "stop playing your radio so loud".

I'm not feeling attacked matey, and I am not really worried about if people want me to ask questions or not.

I am however concerned about having my questions linked to my merchant activities, which are entirely seperate.  John the merchant and John the community member are both me, but should not be mixed up.  It is a decision bourne out of wanting to keep them seperate and they are currently being blurred.

As a vendor (very soon) I am keen to make the most of my technical skills to provide good value products to the community.  I've given away freebies for years, written and recorded tutorials and believe it's time to put those to good use.

As a member of the community (any community) I ask questions in an attempt to understand and communicate with fellow community members, it's all about a bit of social interaction.  Sometimes I'm serious, others more light hearted, but the day I stop asking questions or learning stuff will be the day I stay in bed.

As for other Forums here, to be honest the use of them is sporadic at best.  This Forum is, by popular usage a Poser Technical Forum, so what is the Poser Technical Forum for?  I've been around alot of the forums here and they are either empty or very sporadically posted to.

But then all sorts of questions are asked here, what is this figure? where can I get that hair? what character is this? here is my next thingy bob or whatever. 

If I had one last question to ask it would be, what would  you like to see in this forum that would keep you interested, coming back and participating on a more regular basis?

There is nothing wrong with the Techie stuff, or the where is this or that? or look at what i did posts, I just think there must be something more.  It is a sad fact that other forums are less used, or near empty, but the inescapable truth is that the majority of Forum users come here and only here.

Remember when we posted freebies in here?  I got buckets of downloads from those posts. Now that the posts are in the Freebie Forum, you can count on less than a fraction of the downloads.  This is just an example of other forum usage, not a lament on the number of downloads I get for my freestuff.

Still it is all achedemic, I will continue to participate in teh forums of course, I'm not throwing my toys out of the pram.  Believe it or not I am an Adult (body don't fail me now) I'm not throwing a tantrum, I am simply seeking a way of keeping merchant me and community me distinct.

John

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