peejay, this goes much further then that. I agree the Showcase forum is for true advertisements of products. But now lets say someone in the poser forum asks where to find a particular item. You are no longer allowed to tell them. Let's say someone is looking for a particular tutorial. You can't tell them where that tutorial is if the author has it on a subscription site. The answer to both of these questions eventually will become, "I know where but I can't tell you." Now if anyone here tries to build thier own business it seems that they will no longer be welcome to say anything. This will only serve to keep people shackled to this site as no new ones will be allowed to state that they exist if they are comercial sites. Oh and all the admins need to be banned for promoting outside comercial links. Take a look at the webring top 15 some of those are commercial sites and they draw traffic INTO renderosity. If this idea of no longer allowing links continues then not only will people have to go elsewhere to find the resources they need, but sites will no longer be willing to link back to here. It only serves to hurt everyone.