Almost all rules, including TOS stand or fall on the way they are applied, or not in some cases here in the past. The other issue here is that many, including me are really upset at the demise of Renderosity and for me it has been a rough ride over the last few years. I have set the history out in the other 'final question' thread so I will not waste space repeating it here. Much as I am upset I would not like to see Rendo bashed just for the sake of bashing, I am not saying that it has happened here just that, where it happens it is upsetting.

Part of the reason for the new TOS is because the forums got out of hand, and in general, it was the Poser forum. To me, and many others the forum was used by some individuals to not to be helpful or informative but to try and move the market to their agenda. I still believe now that the old TOS were robust enough to have handled the situation but in many cases they were not applied and if they were, there is some suggestion it was hardly applied in a fair and consistent manner. The end result was that the responses became extremely personal and acrimonious. I see the new TOS as at least an acknowledgement from Rendo that they need to do something, in fact they are fast reaching the point that anything would be better than doing nothing. I wait, with fingers crossed, to see if the new TOS improves the situation.

I don't know if the inability to link to other sites is a major issue in general, clearly it is for some and I can see arguments for and against. I think I would make the point though that there is a lot more wrong here than the inability to link and it would be wrong to suggest that there is a really simple answer for Rendo.

I do hope they succeed in making this a community again but it is going to take a lot more work than just adding a feature here and there.

 

 

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.