I originally wrote the following in a PM. I wasn't going to say any more in this thread because I hate being the hope crusher. I guess the following explaination best describes why I don't ever see Certification happening, much as I'd like to see a Poser Certified Logo on stuff:

This is why I don't see Smith Micro or anyone else doing this. First and foremost, I can see no return on their investment costs to do such a thing. None. Zilch. There is no profit to be made in certifying content.

Here's the thing. I've MADE content for sale and free to redistribute. I know just how much time it takes to verify that a package is not only setup properly runtime wise but tested to verify that it works. The 35 minute estimate I gave in the thread was an extreemly conservative estimate basically just for a package of MAT poses. I can see where testing figures could actually take days to be certified that they work properly. DAYS!

First, a figure isn't JUST a figure. It's a new figure with Morphs, maybe with a complete set of basic clothing, and maybe a whole pose set including hand poses and facial expressions and MAT poses. That's a LOT of content to test and every thing must be tested to get "Poser Certified"! It Has to be. If you don't test everything you will get complaints with any item that passes and ends up problematic. Get enough of these pass through problems and your "Poser Certified" is suddenly just a joke and people stop submitting things at all. Then you're just back to where we are now.

The end result being, most people either learn to fix things they find or they quit the hobby. They're better off learning to do it themselves because honestly? This isn't a hobby for lazy people. You either learn and learn and learn some more, or you quit. I've been doing this since 1998 and I still learn new things every day because I dig into it and I don't know squat about a lot of aspects of Poser still to this day.

In the past 13 years or so, I've seen this "Poser Certified" topic crop up at least half a dozen times under various scenarios and names and it always fizzles of it's own accord. Why? Because as people dig into it, they discover it is WORK and it's not gonna get done for them for free. Nobody wants to do the work. Simple as that. So end users will just continue to bitch because they either have to learn to fix things IE: Do the work themselves or quit.

 There. I said it. Hate me now?