Hmmm, I don't see how Renderosity saw themselves profiting from the war. They host forums and have content for both programs. If anything, they stood to lose members. There may well be some agenda going on but it's not immediately obvious, to me at least. 

The moderation - again memory may fail - but it's never been quick to eject people. I think that general policy has indeed failed of late, but I don't know that it was deliberately lax for this one topic. Overall, as Napoleon said; "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explaned by incompetence." I could of course be terribly wrong :-)

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