LaurieA opened this issue on Sep 24, 2012 · 142 posts
SamTherapy posted Wed, 26 September 2012 at 1:40 PM
Quote - I'm seeing a lot of knee jerk, and little real thought. No matter where something is stored, there are two things that either exist or they don't. One is bandwidth, the other is space on a storage device of some kind. Neither are free for anyone, somewhere along the line, someone is paying for both.
BB mentions Google sites are free, okay, free as long as someone is able to pay for them one way or another, and nobody can say for how long. Wade through a list of websites trying to find something? Be my guest.
Ten bucks being too much in the poserverse? About what I paid for daz pc membership until I cut that off. Per month, not per year. Go to any of the poser inclusive sites and you can damage your credit card a lot more in a hurry.
I doubt that many are much different from me, make something interesting to yourself and decide to see if anyone else is interested by the same thing. But expect completely free space to puit it on? Thankful that it's been there, yes. Expect it, no. Somewhere along the line it has to be paid for or it won't exist.
And on the daz forums, I've seen people whining about putting things up, then taking down everything they had, the general excuse I read is not enough ego strokes. Now complaining that they might have to pay to get the ego strokes. TANSTAAFL.
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This post and the condescending attitude really gets up my nose. Don't presume to know - or even understand - my motivations for posting freebies and don't make assumptions about how much a person can afford. My finances are so tight that it's touch and go whether I have internet access from month to month, let alone paying someone to host my stuff. If it comes to a straight choice between feeding my kids and paying for hosting - and yes, money really is that tight - the kids win, hands down.
I don't care about "ego strokes". I do care about spending $10 on something I can do without, when I have a very limited income. Renderosity offers free space for freestuff, so why do I need to pay ShareCG for the privelege?
Coppula eam se non posit acceptera jocularum.