Forum: Community Center


Subject: What is happening here ?

pokeydots opened this issue on Nov 21, 2002 ยท 35 posts


Questor posted Thu, 21 November 2002 at 5:18 PM

Cyberstretch. There's a long thread in this forum from a ways back when the Poser forum got even more rigid about posting links. Started by Renapd I believe following a "you can't post a poserworld link in here" (Poser forum) comment. Essentially you can link to a non-commercial page (home page or freestuff page) but not to a commercial page - ie direct store link or to a "click me to buy this" page. The subject is explored in some depth because in the case of Poserworld and 3DArena posting even to the home page is disallowed. So now Steve posts images of what he's working on and updates go in the store announce forums. 3DArena I believe is still prevented from posting links here because it's a member site with a brokered store. RDNA only posts about their freestuff and Steve at Poserworld links only to his freestuff page, as does Sams3D. So, essentially you can mention to someone that you got "X" item at Daz, or by "artist" but you can't link directly to the product or product page. Nor can you link to pages that require access by registration. In the case of Curious Labs, they linked to their home page which is does not require registration, which contained a link to the product and free download pages and other areas. So didn't break TOS. As CL are directly responsible for Poser the post was extremely Poser related so again, not OT or against TOS. The problems arose from a huge multitude of "WIP and Coming Soon to the store" posts in Poser forum that were starting to bury other posts. Included in this were repeated posts. A few vendors didn't revisit something they'd posted earlier with a new image, they started a whole new thread. It was becoming ridiculous. The PTB here finally stepped in and created the Showcase forum and the majority of vendors went there without complaint - probably happy that they finally had somewhere to post a product that didn't get buried under a dozen "I hate NVIATWAS" posts and two dozen "I think Poser Gallery sucks" threads. :D So the general rule is Product mention ok Product linking not ok Product discussion ok if relevant to question Product spamming not ok Link to site ok Like to member only site not ok Link to freebies ok Link to store not ok. Or something along those lines. In a nutshell. :)