I frequently feel the desire to remove all traces of myself from Renderosity. But my enormous list of product downloads keeps me firmly fastened to the site. That and a handful of vendors who don't sell anywhere else. Above all, I think of this site as a marketplace, and I mainly come here for the vendors. Seems wrong to punish them for my own feelings about the site design, forum behaviors, or kitchy and/or hyper sexualized galleries.

To be sure, the more time I spend on the site -- in forums, galleries, freestuff, etc -- the more money I spend on content. So it hasn't been much lately at all. But not gonna abandon the content creators whose stuff I truly adore over things that no longer affect me the moment I close my browser.

As for "Where did it all go wrong?" LOL. Ah, it's the market. As soon as you permit anything like a wide open market for anything, all the high brow pretensions are going to disappear. Checked out the state of ebook publishing lately? Now that editors no longer control the flow of words, anything and everything is being offered, almost all of it utter and complete trash. In comparison, this site is a glowing example of restraint and quality, most likely because the store does not simply allow anyone to sell anything without any quality control. In other words, I don't think it's gone wrong at all. The market is functioning exactly as it's supposed to. :)

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