The topic of sites such as CGSociety trashing Poser, its users and the Poser end product commonly known as "art" in some shape or form has come up more often than a dog's breakfast ever since the first version of Poser was introduced.  If one uses Poser, expect to be subject to endless ridicule from sites like the aforementioned and other similar purist sites.  The lack of respect likely comes from being able to buy everything from the character, clothing, poses, sets and everything else and with a few clicks of a mouse have the software generate an image and call yourself an artist.  With that in mind, what is "the artist's" contribution, having bought everything to make the image? Not much from what I have seen and yet people wonder why Poser and Poser users keep getting a bad rap from "professionals".   It's fairly simple to get decent results with Poser if you know what you're doing.  Sure, it takes time...but what doesn't ?        

I don't see it as cheating to use a tool such as Poser.  I used to draw a long time ago and found it was easier to generate images and bring characters to life with Poser.  If I noticed something wasn't right, it was easier to correct on the screen than it was on paper. :)