You know not see that, but it's the honest truth. We thank you for your dedication to our site and hate to see so many members unhappy with our changes, but please remember that we decided this as a team.

I don't think anyone see this as if it were your decision alone Hope, but as already pointed out by others, you and any other admin that interact directly with the community will of course take the heat straight on. But that doesn't mean that all the concerns that members have are directed personally towards you guys, in the end its directed against Renderosity as a whole.

In part, I do get why you're upset. It was too much at one time. But, change is never fun for anyone - including me.

Change is not something that can be generalized as being negative as if all changes for some strange reason is also always bad. If a change is for something better, then its positive, it all depends on how a change is received, and clearly the majority see this change as being for the worse and therefore negative and not fun.

Just because I may not take the suggestion, does not mean I haven't heard you out or listened to you. I am a great listener, so let's talk.

That you consider yourself a great listener, might be true, im not aware of what this is based on and why you consider yourself as such and stress why it is the case? Anyone can listen unless deaf of course. So its of little value as a skill in my eyes. How someone reacts to what they hear is what matters and don't get me wrong its not a personal attack, because you might very well understand what the community is saying and want to react to it, but clearly someone at Renderosity does not want to. And that is primarily what the problem is, you keeping stressing that these changes were a team decision, yet there have been no good arguments put forward to why this change is needed?

The initial idea that this would somehow help or prevent viruses.

There have been countless of arguments and questions from the community, trying to explain you why this can and will never work. Yet there have been no counter argument from you as to why any of these arguments are not true?

You claim to have or want to take responsibility in cases where people do get a virus.

Again lots of questions and arguments have been made by the community to why this is not valid. Such as in your own disclaimer clearly stating that you do not take any responsibility. The fact that its impossible for you to remove links faster than someone can make them. To what type of responsibility are you referring to? If you claim that you have responsibility how should a member that gets a virus from a link on your site react or expect from you? or is what you mean with responsibility just as it have always been for every single website with a forum on the internet, that they of course will remove links that contains viruses, not because they are responsable for them, but because its bad for their forum and they do it as a service to their members. Yet there have been no reply to any of these questions or arguments to why they are wrong?

Freebies should be uploaded directly to Renderosity

Tons of arguments have been posted to why this is a bad solution for those creating the freebies and for Renderosity as a whole. You have put forward arguments that people could buy adwords as a solution and yes that is a suggestion, but not really valid when we are talking about free content including a lot more arguments that i wont get into here as it would take to much time. Me and lots of others have made you aware that the changes you apply, will drive traffic away from your site and not to it and thereby you are removing the primary value with freebies. Yet there have been no counter argument to why this is not true either?

So you say that you are a great listener, but as i stated its of little value, when none of the arguments and questions asked by the community seems to get any answers. If this decision was made as a team, there must have been a discussion amongst you, and at some point you have gotten convinced that this was a good idea. So my point is, that since its a team decision there must be someone at Renderosity able to answer and present counter arguments to all these claims, because how on earth did you ever get to the conclusion that this was a good idea, if no one is able to defend it?