Quote - I don't think it is, people are definitely buying more content, at least where I'm at. What I think is happening though is the overall negativity where certain dead horse topics were posted over and over... and were allowed to fester with misinformation and personal attacks, unmoderated, until they boil over and get locked. That drove a lot of people away that were looking for information on how to use the software, get tips or just have a nice conversation.

So they're just buying the content and avoiding the forum altogether.

I don't think there's an overwhelming amount of negativity, dead horse topics or not. Some of the people who were responsible for much of the alleged negativity still lurk around and they come out in full force whenever someone starts one of their favorite type of threads. You know who they are for the most part because you never see them posting unless it's to say something negative. You rarely, if ever, see them posting to ask a question or give an answer. Or to post a simple off topic comment just for fun. Others simply have gone to other forums. I know of several people who use to post here all the time who have moved almost exclusively over to the Hivewire forum. You rarely see them post here anymore unless the subject of Dawn comes up. I only tend to lurk there myself, and even then only occasionally. But then, I don't use Dawn, and I don't use Genesis, so I'm rarely over at the DAZ forums either.