<Copied from another thread - it seems more appropriate here>

A long time ago I used to post here. I started several threads, and many ran to dozens of pages, tens of thousands of views and hundreds, sometimes thousands of replies. People were excited by those threads, and came here every day to keep up with them. That was in the days of a proper community.

They were threads about EZMat, EZSkin, Pose2Lux, Subdivision in Poser, EZMetals et al. Hope, you probably don't know much about those projects, not being an actual community member yourself, but take it from me that they were quite popular among Poser users.

And what did they all have in common? They were all threads about freebies available offsite, with links to them.

Others used to create similarly popular threads: the Antonia thread, the Luxpose thread etc. And guess what? they were all about freebies available offsite too.

It used to work like this:

People fetch the freebie offsite, then RETURN TO RENDEROSITY to read more about it.

People fetch the freebie offsite, then RETURN TO RENDEROSITY to ask for help with it.

People fetch the freebie offsite, then RETURN TO RENDEROSITY to make suggestions for enhancements to it.

People would go and fetch the freebie offsite, then RETURN TO RENDEROSITY to buy products to use with the freebie.

Read that again. It's important. IT'S WHAT MADE THIS A COMMUNITY. People were excited about the forums, excited about Renderosity.

Not only are the originators of those threads no longer active here, but none of those threads would be possible now. With the new dumbass rules they would each have been locked on the very first day - every single one of them.

Nobody here has a clue about what makes the community tick, so they just make up rules instead. It would be funny if it wasn't such a joke.

Still, instead of genuine understanding we have the fake smiles and cheesy cheerleading instead. That's got to count for something, doesn't it?

Jeez.

Malysse, who once used to post as Snarlygribbly