consumer573 posted at 10:22AM Thu, 28 January 2016 - #4251702

May I additionally suggest that if Renderosity is suddenly finding an increase in comments they don't like to see on the forums it might be that they are no longer engaging the people they want to (i.e. have turned them off)? You tend to get negative comments more frequently when people (customers/artists) are unhappy. At first they will be constructive as long as they feel someone who cares is listening. After the customers that you want to engage get tired and leave then what remains will likely be the more vocal negative outliers. I don't know if this is the problem here, but management should consider the possibility. Again, IMHO. If it is, the harder you crack down, the less valuable and more cranky the forum will become until finally even the outliers realize they are shouting into the empty wind and go away. QUOTE

I am not sure on the TOS changes and will keep an open mind until I see how they are applied.

Personally, I only really use the Poser, Community and Prime forum and as the Poser forum is the most popular of those that is what is use to judge the value of the forums here. One of the side effects of the endless arguments that appeared in the past is that a lot of users just gave up trying to find the useful information buried in all the arguments. The end result is that a lot of people stopped coming here for help and those that were willing to help stopped because their efforts were, to some degree wasted. As I said a personal view but a lot will agree that the Poser forum is not what it used to be even if they do not agree with my reasons.

Something needs to change so I see it as a positive move that changes are being put in place, now it is a question to see if the rules can be applied fairly, consistently and with a degree of common sense. Other forums can do it and Rendo have enough skilled staff to be able to do it, so the question is whether the will is there. At the moment it looks like it might be, I wish them well.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.