I know this has been said before... but I don't think it's right that a download from the Free Section here links to a site where you HAVE to take out a membership... in fact, you can't even SEE what it is you want to download until you become a member. Things like that should be mentioned in the forum, like Sams3D does... NOT in Freestuff! Damn waste of time, thanks for listening. Heike

Poor you, having to give someone an email address so you can get stuff FOR FREE. Would you rather have everybody turn into a subscription site like Props Guild and Poser World? If it's FREE, you have no right to bitch about it.

Then why the eff is it okay for SOME sites, and not Poserworld, or Sams3D, or RuntimeDNA... Who all offer great free stuff and don't need to link to it in Freestuff! Sorry, your bs doesn't hold up here.

MY bs? Give me a break. You're the ungrateful whiner here complaining about people who are good enough to GIVE you stuff for free instead of making you pay for it like others. You should be happy any of release free items at all, if we're just going to get reactions like yours. People like you are the reason good free stuff contributors have STOPPED making their projects available to the public, because no matter what they do, they always have someone bitching at them for it.

If I come to renderosity's free stuff, I wouldn't expect to get sent to a site that makes you register to even LOOK at the item they were USING RENDEROSITY to advertise. I don't mind being sent to a page of the persons downloads, that how I set mine up. But you get sent right to that page, not a page where you have to look for a link or give someone your email address so they can sell it to spammers.

If I want to go to poserworld, I'll go to poserworld. If I want to go to Poserpros/3D Commune/Etc then that's where I'll go.

I personally think it's unfair of anyone to use Renderosity's well known free section to advertise for subscribers to their site.

We feel that there are good points on both sides of this issue. Please keep it about the issue and not the people. We will be reworking how the free stuff works within this next year.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/freestuff.ez

I think that the problem is that the "free" items refered to break the rule in the second paragraph of the Renderosity Free Stuff Pages information.

Attached Link: http://www.members.shaw.ca/odeathoflife

I have my free item's linked to my main page, there are very identifyable buttons to teh downloads section, that way I can keep track of how many people come from here or come from elsewhere on the web via a web tracker. I feel that I am giving quality products away for free, and maybe they will want to look in my gallery or what ever on my site. I spend a lot of time tweeking my webpage and would like people to see it. I do not offer memberhship though.

I wasn't even talking about linking, Ode... but the fact that a download click takes you to a site that requires you to sign up to even see a thumb of what you might want. To me, that is blatant spamming, no matter what the Q-Boo-Who says...

Attached Link: http://www.members.shaw.ca/odeathoflife

Yes I hate that as well, bu I have been here for a couple of years now, and pretty much have memberships at all the main sites so I no longer see that sign-up anymore. But I also feel that that is not fair, on one hand, but on another hand you are getting stuff for teh membership ( I won't say free cause its not really if you have to sign up for it) For those that do not want to sign up for the site, there should be that option though, but again you can't get to the free stuff here with out a membership. Ahhh. It's cloudy.

I've been to your page, odeathoflife and haven't minded clicking a link. It's the pages where the link to their downloads is buried in another link to another section of their site. That's what annoys me. I like seeing people's websites. :)

You need a membership here, yes but that's why it's unfair of another site to use this site to obtain their own membership base. I now choose my memberships wisely and am so sick of spam I'm considering trashing the email addy I've had for years.