Although I have been buying from Renderosity for some years I only really started to get interested in the forums earlier this year.  I have learnt a great deal from reading the threads even the discussions on different methods of doing things.  It allowed me to go away and play with some of the suggestions and decide which worked for me and those that did not.  I quickly duscovered the people that posted on a regular basis and I found many I respected both for their knowledge and their willingness to share information with others.

Everything was good and I found enjoyment in the time spent reading but in the last few months I have found more and more threads where I decide I will ignore them because I find the personal attacks depress me.  I will admit to being biased in that I have never had much time for the 'mine is bigger than yours' debates that appear in almost all hobbies and other aspects of life.

So for the last few months I have spent more time in Poser and less in the forums, hoping that it would all pass over and believeing that I could not get any worse.  Now on one of my visits I am dismayed to find some of the people whose input I have valued and respected from the start begin to question thelr continuing input.  So I was wrong and I have to accept it has got worse.

I doubt anything I say can change the the path the forums take in 2012 and my continued interest is in the hands of others.  I would however like to make a couple of comments .

1. The wrong people appear to be leaving.

2. As someone being old enough to be semi-retired I want my own time to be spent in a way that pleases me.

3. At my age the last thing I want to do is grow up I enjoying playing with my toys far too much and as long as everyone else is enjoying their toys a really don't care what they are playing with (but I might want to have a go myself)

I do hope that in 2012 I find that there are others that feel like me, or if not, we can find a way to communicate with each other in a way that benefits us both

 

  

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.