when in the 70's the birth rates went down in Europe, the stork population went down as well while the use of refrigerators went up. So either storks do deliver babys or people appreciate a good snack over good sex. Or, as Churchill said: you've got lies, damn lies and statistics. Same with the Rendo forum. In a large scale investigation I performed for the Rendo FAQ project, I found that threads on materials contained twice as much posts as average. Why? Not because people were more involved but because a statement on materials requires images, and in those days Rendo supported only one image per post so a single statement required more posts to make.

When your line of thinking is followed, all forums should be merged into one. Which is fine to me, but it's just not the case.  

And I do know some people face some "issues" when dealing with the forum software. Actually, I don't. Cutting and pasting works fine except when using IE, adding content to a post works fine by just putting that content on my site or in Dropbox and including a link to it in the post, and when the post does not appear at once I only click F5 to refresh.  Perhaps all are good reasons to swear every now and then, I feel with you.

My simple request is: just don't do it over and over again in the Poser forum. As statistics never prove anything (they only can show some assumptions are unlikely), and I never said that people (in general) did not like to see other people knocking each other out. My point is that some people don't like it when they come in for Poser related stuff only, and they deserve a place on Earth too.

That's why I suggested to do the non-Poser topics in a non-Poser corner of Rendo. From your logic, it might be a shear hit. Good! And still there will be people not visiting it, as there are still people not visiting the Poser forum for the simple reason: they don't do Poser (but Vue, fractals, Photoshop, ...). And I don't do negativity towards other people, for good personal reasons. I don't put them on lists either. So I do claim the rights to be, at Rendo too.

You're fully entitled to do negativity without Poser. I'm not stopping you, I'm just asking you to do it somewhere else.
I'm entitled to do Poser without negativity. You are hindering me with that! Stop it. 

When you want competitions without prizes, then start one. It's done before. Or whine about other people not starting them. I don't mind. Just don't do it in the Poser forum, so I can have a nice place to be too.

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