OHH, steady there, you will ruin the reputation I am trying to build as the gruff poser user.

Oh, you fail miserably at that! :D

As for me, and "pushed buttons":

If you look over my meager post history, you'll notice that I mostly tried to keep out of the bickering. It's just this time here where I went overboard and stated the obvious. Because no one else dares, but knows exactly which members are the problem, I decided to approach the members personally, by name. I might get banned for that but - phhtt - let it be. If the trolls get more protection than contributing members, so be it.

But I'm just so fed up with always the same gang having "carte blanche" here, ruining any thread they pick upon.

All I want is to come here, learn, get my questions answered, and if I can, share what I know.

What I don't want is some "Super Gurus" ruining threads with their constant same-same of how bad Poser is, how bad the work done by it's users is, and how soon Poser will die.

Thank you for reading my ramblings.

Cheer up!

Peter

Well I sure hope that you don't get banned, so many good people have already left.  I do understand you view point and I did think a week or so ago that things were going to improve.  There were a new set of rules and a good timely intervention in a thread.  Another thread was stopped in it's tracks in the last day or so but other than that it has been business as usual.  The rules have come and gone and are generally ignored. Over at RDNA, where a lot of good posters migrated, one individual was taken to task in no uncertain terms by the site owner and the thread stayed alive and informative.  I also note that, after all the claims that it was all Poser users fault that the threads were like this, the one thread that was moved from the Poser forum to the Daz forum degenerated in the usual manner, which says a lot.

Having said all that you can only blame the individuals so far, if they are allowed to get very personal (and sometimes hateful), with only the occasional 'let's be nice' comments from the powers that be you really can't expect anyone to change.

 

 

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