You know... it occurs to me that I've heard all these arguments before... both from site owners and community members for and against certain changes... At DAZ when they started putting in the rules about 3rd party posts etc a year or more ago. They used many of the arguments for doing so that Renderosity is now using here, and the community there used almost exactly the same arguments against making those changes as I've been seeing everyone list over and over again here.

I will say only this... I would not be where I am now as an artist or as a content provider if it had not been for people that I met here on Rendo, or there at DAZ in their forums. People that are no longer here, people that are no longer at DAZ, simply because someone somewhere decided that profit was more important that the community that got them where they are today.

Rendo was once a great place, it is now a shadow of what it once was. Daz was a great place and it too is a shadow of what it used to be. Neither got the way they have because of the community... they both got there because somewhere, someone decided that the community no longer mattered, that the sharing and free spirit of the artists that built them into the sites they both have become, was less important that making a buck on the backs of the artists that got them there.

I think it is a damned shame that the people that helped so many of us learn this craft are gone now because the changes that were being made drove them away. I think it's even worse that the changes (claimed to be in the best interest of the community) are made anyways when the very community these changes are made for says no. I think the worst of all though is that the people making the decisions think that they have anyone else (other than themselves) in mind when they go ahead with things like this in the name of "community"...

And with RDNA going to DAZ another vibrant community will most likely be lost soon too...

Honestly... it's not about making the community better... it's about profit, pure and simple... why not just admit it and get on with it... at least we'd all know where we stand...