Fascinating how short the collective memory is.

I've been posering for almost 10 years. Here's the story I learned about !!! prefix

It has nothing to do with ego. It is simply this:

In earlier versions of Poser (which were still widely in use when I started) there was a flaw in the library. It could only show 100 items per folder. Period.

So guess how many vendors got complaints that their product doesn't work - it doesn't show up when I install it!!! You suck! 

Then one really bright vendor figured out that the files are listed in ASCII alphabetical order, and the ! character comes before all the printable characters that exist. (It is ascii code 33, the lowest number that shows a glyph.)

So they solved their customer support problem by putting one ! in front.

Then other vendors saw the same problem, and solved it by one-upping the ! with !!. This made them first in the list, and customer support problems dropped to zero for a while.

Then the first smart vendor, who is now getting complaints from the unwashed masses again, changed their prefix to !!!, thus making them first again.

And so on, until E-Frontier or Smith Micro (can't remember which it was, but it's the same Poser crew) finally got smart and expanded the number of items that would show. 

 

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