More than one of the main persons, Kendra. I was involved in building the store here when it was first set up under Jack D Kammerer's management. Mehndi also helped in that. As a partner in DSI with Jack and Ed Arseneault, we were responsible for taking this site from a little over 2,000 members to over 50,000. WE are the ones that started most of the innovations you still see on this site. WE worked with Roy Riggs (fur) to get the software working beyond basic Bondware. This site's very foundation was built on our hard work and ideas. After our services were "no longer required", Renderosity continued to make improvements. I will grant them that. Many of those improvements were built on Russell's work. And Mehndi worked in the store to make many further innovations as well. I won't pretend that things have always been smooth between Renderosity and myself. I am sure Mehndi would concede the same thing. But, I have sold my products here in good faith. I have participated in the merchant's forum in good faith. Yes, I have vehemently disagreed with some of the policies they have instituted recently. But I have not "bashed" Renderosity in those disagreements. I have pointed out logical reasons for those disagreements. Reasons why I didn't feel they were good for the merchants here, mainly because they usually went on the premise that Renderosity is the only store that matters. I've seen no big secrets discussed in the merchants forum. Nor have I gleaned any information from there that I couldn't get elsewhere. And more than likely BEFORE it was discussed there. Sorry, but there ARE no secrets in this community. I suppose the powers that be think that by disagreeing with their policies I am trying to disrupt the Marketplace for my own agenda. Truthfully, if that was the case, I would have just kept my mouth shut and let them institute one silly policy after another. That would have helped my business elsewhere. But, since the policies of the marketplace affect my business of selling in the merketplace I couldn't in good faith do that. Renderotica and Animotions have NEVER told vendors where they can sell. We have NEVER restricted merchants based on their other affiliations. We have NEVER restricted who could promote their sites/products on our sites. And we don't plan to do so. That would not be in our best interest or the community's. The more restrictive Renderosity becomes and the more they try to be or act like the only store in the community, the more this community will be hurt. Monopolies do not care about their customers. They don't have to. My feeling is that this is just the first step in a long line of restrictive merchant policies. Especially since they have now extended the recent policy to include anyone who "doesn't support the purpose of the merchants forum". The implication is, disagree with anything and you will be blacklisted. We all need to be concerned about this. Members and merchants alike. And we all need to work together to prevent this from happening. Thanks, Diane Thure Griffith DTHUREGRIF@aol.com www.animotions.com Create the adventure! www.renderotica.com Serving the adult graphics community.