We are simply hitting the fundamental bug of Renderosity forums: they are organized along applications, not along tasks which is completely opposite of how real artists work.

Some time ago I saw on another forum a link to a youtube channel where a novel lighting technique was demonstrated with several video tutorials. The context was photography but the thing could be easily (well, rolling you sleeves up) replicated in any rendering application. Where do I post that info? there is no unified lighting forum on Renderosity; if I post that link anywhere else but in the photography forum it would be nearly OT; in any case, unless people roam the whole forums lots of them would miss it.

If the forums were organized differently there would be an interoperability forum in which discuss if/how move Genesis from DAZ to Poser (and how to move SketchUp models to Vue etc. etc.), a rigging forum where discuss the different pro/cons of the different weightmap approaches (and e.g. how to rig stuff in Blender), a soft body modeling forum were discuss the topologies of Genesis/V4/Antonia and so on. Questions about lighting would go in the lighting forum (where 3D people would have the opportunity to learn a lot from photographical techniques), in the composition forum people would discuss how put things together (there are "some" techniques beyond the rule of thirds, and even in the case of the rule of thirds there are cases in which it is a good idea to break it), etc. etc. etc.

Last, application specific forums for Poser/Studio/Vue etc for questions really pertaining the specific programs (hey everybody, there is a new build available for Vue).

One place for everything, everything in its place.

GIMP 2.7.4, Inkscape 0.48, Genetica 3.6 Basic, FilterForge 3 Professional, Blender 2.61, SketchUp 8, PoserPro 2012, Vue 10 Infinite, World Machine 2.3, GeoControl 2