ok, here is a person (myself, in case you're wondering), who has, since march 2001, been an active member at 'rosity. He has seen the comings and goings of various staff members, has lost a few on-site friends to the pale reaper, has laughed in the chat-room and offered assistance to those needing it. I started to learn to code in python for the same reason, and a very helpful chap called SnarlyGribbly was more than willing to assist me. Without the likes of people like him, among others, this community has started fading into a hole that it will be lucky to recover from.

The meat of this community, and the reason it has survived so long, are the members. So let's take a quick look at this once thriving community now, trolls came along and shredded the forums, and renderosity did nothing until it was... sadly.. too late. They then followed this with a less than well-received (yes I am being PC) site redesign and hoped that the usual "we are looking into this", "we will mention it to the programmers", which literally translates to - OMG stop crying, we don't care! and people started closing accounts and leaving the community. As if all that that was not enough, they then start adding rules (and I really don't care when these rules were made, the current staff are the ones implementing them.) that prohibit the cross sharing of data, um... guys? do you really not know how the internet works? on that note, all of my freebies on another sharing site, will now have to be edited to remove all links to renderosity. Sorry, if you cannot link to me, I cannot link to you. Since the great majority of my freebies were poses (and actually some decent sets I believe) they helped to bring people into the site, people knew me on both sites, and I had many requests for different pose sets. My enjoyment of my chosen art form has declined so much because of the fascist nature of this site recently, that I no longer even open poser.

Standing there, clapping your hands and cheering while the city around you burns is very reminiscent of the proverbial Nero, burning the city of Rome in 64AD (and while this is not really what happened - before the history buffs start challenging it, it seems very apt here.) Watching the people flee to more desirable climes, and cheering that, instead of attempting to put out the fire, is in actual fact, quite a ludicrous stance to take. Your statement of "We no longer want your business, FOAD," has been, for the most part, clearly received by a community who no longer matters.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," - George Santayana

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