Dear Poppi, There is some truth to what you post, but I don't see the demise of the poser community in the near future. Dear Community, What I see is the ground being cleared and foundation planned for new policy and maybe a new direction to be established. How that policy gets established really is in the power of we the consumers, because if we don't buy, the companies fail. Small communities, in the beginning can be a lot of fun and feel so warm and fuzzy, but, without expansion, they wither and die eventually. We have gone through recent stages of expansion, finally, but now we have to decide as a community if these expansions are the way we want to go. If not, we need to make it known so that policy we can live with will then be established. There are still a lot of great things added to the free stuff sections, much along the lines of the great things before. It happens in waves of quality, for a while a bunch of junk and then a sudden infusion of generosity. It has always been thus. Some sites have gone to subscription, but they've kept their costs reasonable. Other completely free sites bud up to replace them. These are natural stages of development. The more community members, the more conficts, but still we have to grow to stay into being and deal with the subsequent changes that occur. It is the nature of the beast. I hope everyone will see the good that I still see in this community and work to make policy that will allow this community to continue to grow. If it grows too big, heh, there is the natural possibility of warm fuzzy subcommunities developing once again, if that is what you miss. Can it grow that big, sure, but it all depends on the will of this cummunity. Okay, off the soapbox now. That was fun. Regards, Mab, the fairy queen