Quote - >> "Creating a site like the one quoted would set up an elitist caste system among Poser users and anyone with enough cash to throw at the certification site would get certified!"

Quote - If that's how you approach it, yes, it'll happen. But if it's a site where the QA is a little more ruthless so customers dont have to come back and tell the vendor or the vendor site, "Hey, didnt anyone see this in testing?", I could see a certification program as possibly a good thing. Thing is, there are very few "professional" vendors in the Poserverse: most are hobbyists just looking to feed that Vicky monkey on their backs -- and as such, sometimes a few corners are cut just to get the product out the door. Most users these days seem to shrug their shoulders and say "Hey it only cost me a few bucks, I can fix it myself"... but when it comes to that happening from a upper echelon vendor, you have to wonder why fixing would be necessary for someone who, by now anyway, would know better.

I dont think this would be the kind of thing one could simply buy their way in. At least I would hope not.

Unfortunately, we don't live in that kind of world Sean. Just look at what you wrote. Most vendors in the Poser market really are just hobbiests who moved into semi professionalism to justify all the money they were spending on the hobby. Do you really think anyone opening a "Certifications" website would be doing it for altruistic reasons? Seriously?

First off it would be costing them just to host such a site. Then it would be costing them time to actually certify all of these items and probably cash if they had to pay someone else to certify items for them. It's just not the sort of thing you'll see going "Open Source". I'd love to see someone proove me wrong though.