No, it's not the end of the world if Renderosity throws away its credibility; it's just sad. This site isn't (or perhaps WASN'T) just a corporate advertisement: for a number of members it represented an artistic online community. Those three words "artistic", "online", and "community" imply a degree of openness one wouldn't demand from microsoft.com. Choosing acceptable artists by politburo takes any shred of credible openness and throws it in the garbage. The politburo has still failed to answer the most important question: would its anonymous committee ever, ever even CONSIDER an artist like Legume, who was elected AOM by a vast margin of the former Renderosity community? They haven't answered because if they said "yes" even the least skeptical reader would see the fingers crossed behind their backs.