Lower post count is directly a product of the economy. With less income for their hobby... people just avoid it.

Those were you're moderates who tended to drown out the chaos.

We're left with the die hards and the wealthy. Never a good combonation IMHO.

There's also another "feature" to comminity shrinkage.

Many people have grown beyond Poser. I'm teaching myself riggin in Bender, and I can model a complete figure in a few hours in Lightwave (But not Blender yet!)... which ends up worth the effort beause these I have no copyright issues.

Instead of trolling for cool stuff to buy. I just make whatever I can think of.

I only boot up Poser these days if I have what I need already, and I'm in a big hurry. DAZ4 lost me when it stopped automatically finding all my runtimes.

My point was... all this will pass. It seems bad now, but eventually people will find a more rewarding place to argue, and if the economy is ever allowed to improve... the customrs and their question wil come back.

:-D

mo·nop·o·ly  [muh-nop-uh-lee]
noun, plural mo·nop·o·lies.
1. exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market,
or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices