Pen, that's where I was getting confused. If there were no "secret" information in the forum, then what is all this stuff about? I read the threads where Mehndi and Entropic were banned and I can only imagine how infureated Entropic must be about his gallery (which I just checked, is still up) I understand that Tim wants to make money, but this has ALWAYS been a user driven community with little or no input from the admins unless they had helpful comments or to settle difference with it's members. So why NOW are all of these things coming into light? I've only had a few encounters with Mehndi personally, but what I know is that both Mehndi and Entropic have always been pleasant people around here. I'm keeping up with the FN threads and am worried on not only a customer base, but an artistic base as well. As I stated previously, if he can turn on his merchants, what's to say he won't do the same to the artists who post in this community? If he can punish those who run their own brokerage sites like this and throw illfounded statements around about them...what will he do next? Make all artists ONLY post here? Tell us that our personal sites with our work is "competition" to people coming in and perusing our galleries which gives him more traffic? Tell us that we're banned for posting at 3DC or elsewhere? I have a deep seeded feeling that this is just the beginning of the "changes" that will go on around here and I, for one, am completely worried about what stands where?

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