Wonderland posted at 10:49AM Sat, 27 February 2016 - #4257668

And I have one more thing to say about Hope and this is NOT meant at all as character bashing so please don't delete or ban me.... The impression I get is that Hope is a genuinely nice person, she probably has a great relationship with her fiancé, gets along great with her co-workers and is generally a happy person with a smile on her face like her emojis in her posts. She is probably in a very happy point in her life and here we are bombarding her with all this negativity and she just wants it to go away. We are sucking the joy out of her just as Renderosity is sucking the joy out of us. She wants our negativity to go away so badly that she offered to delete our accounts if we are not happy. And I get that. But that makes me think this is not the correct job for her. She would make a great motivational speaker or self-help author and I believe could be very successful at it. However, I don't think this is the right job for her. She hasn't been around the Renderosity community as long as all the long time members and vendors and doesn't understand the dynamic and issues and must, I'm sure, follow whatever those higher ups are telling her.

But Hope, you can be our "hope" by letting those powers that be know what's going on-- by letting them know they are destroying a company, by letting them know how passionate we are about getting Renderosity fixed, because it is our store too, we created it, the vendors and buyers are what keeps the store going, without us, there is no Renderosity! And Hope, if you are all about hope and love, then be the good guy (girl) and fix this! Let the powers that be truly understand our concerns! Be the motivational speaker to THEM, not us, motivate them to change things so their customers will be happy! You want happiness and smiles? Then please do something about it. You have the power! Thanks.

I have walked into many industries that were completely out of my domain and I knew nothing about them. In some cases this might not be a good move like mig welding axle flanges on cars. Would this mean that if you were thinking of a career change then forget it because if you started life as a postal worker or bank clerk you should never consider anything else. I learned and grew on the job which is the best way to get experience. If we were to have the aim to be a community then wouldn't it be best to guide Hope and make suggestions. I have worked with Hope for long enough to know she has the goods to nail this job and given time make improvements and could prove many of her doubters wrong. Granted the current changes are not to everybody's taste it was a decision by the upper management. When the site update happened I was sending Hope 8 -10 sitemails a day and considering all the staff and no doubt members were probably sending in their fair share I thought Hope did very well addressing the issues and it might have taken a while to address many of the problems as they appeared she did not design the site and IMO proved her worth that she gets things done. You might not all like the design but there are far less glitches and bugs. All I am asking is you give her a go and although we have had this unfortunate event happen if the member's that do care about the community were to help her then chances are with friendly guidance and suggestions Hope will become experienced to your standards that you would like to see I don't mean that as a smart remark either. Now I spend all day every day witnessing members helping newbies and those with less experience in all areas of software and it is not long before you start to see those once learning being the ones to give advice. I don't doubt Hopes ability to do a great job here just needs time and understanding while she settles in and learns, I think we all should be fair and consider had some of the changes not been introduced Hope would have had far more experience already in the "2D/3D field" but I can tell you she has a fair understanding of website glitches and major faults and I am pretty certain she did not have those skills when she arrived. Give her some time please.

- Johnny G

"Try animation to get things moving"

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