Also like to point out that the freebie threads here are rarely useful at all anymore because they are only about freebies on Renderosity-- anyone can find those, they're right at the top of "what's new" when the thread is made or updated here. Now the only useful thing about this forum is tutorials on how to use certain freebies and teasers for upcoming freebies, both of which are a rarity. Or for freebies completely unrelated to 3D, such as music (2d textures, backgrounds, photoshop/gimp brushes/gradients/palettes, photoshop actions, and photoshop styles all fall under "competing products".) I don't know if fonts count as competing products or not. Gimp scripts/plugins might not be acceptable as the places that host them are usually either competing sites or forums that might not fall under the category of "trusted sites"
On top of all of that, the ToU is very incomplete, vague, and gives very little clue as to what is and is not okay to link to, which likely contributes to far fewer people linking to non-competing external sites than might otherwise be.