Quote - Quote - " First of all, being called "you people"...don't go there. Ok?"

Ok I know what you are thinking and I wasn't being a racists and it gets kind of tired when people point that out just to think its a racists remark so please don't start. 

To me that is logic because I never knew about some of the stuff he said about renderosity.

Anyway to get back on topic the bottom line is this is a bad idea. In my opinion.

No one said anything about racism. It was the furthest thing from my mind. Are you assuming you know something about me that you really don't? (Don't add any tone to that. I'm honestly confused and curious.) It's just an insulting remark that was made, as far as I'm concerned. Logic, by most definitions, is usually an argument or series or statements that speaks to the question at hand. There were facts thrown in that were irrevelevant to the discussion and a lot of emotion that I noticed, but nothing that showed even a basic understanding of what was being quoted. Neferset

Quote - > Quote - First of all, being called "you people"...don't go there.

What card are you trying for?  Tin?

LMAO!  Sorry, I couldn't resist.

@Tom: Oh geeze!  I forgot about your license plates!  But point well taken ;) 

???????????????? Card? Are we still speaking English? I recognize the words, but the way they are put together in the above sentance is incomprehensible to this native speaker. But I can tell you think you are making fun of me. Don't. I make fun of me much better than you ever could. Told you things were getting childish 'round these parts. Or were they always? I'm a bit out of touch. Nef

Quote - hawkfyr just threw the logic at you people. This is going to be intresting....

First of all, being called "you people"...don't go there. Ok? Second of all...Logic? A lack of understanding about anything posted by the person he quoted (who is sitting next to me and is not me, for anyone who might have weird ideas--I understand there were some weird ideas after the other night) and a total misunderstanding of what the person he quoted was referring too. That I get from his post, but logic? For one thing, he proved no point whatsoever and only added to the noise. When noise is considered logic, something is dreadfully wrong. That and changing the font colors and adding the bold in there was bad netiquette. Actually, unless you're screaming, using them in your own posts like I see him doing is bad netiquette. Makes it hard to read for one. I tend to get an instant headache. Like, say, now. Maybe I can help you understand what was going on in the post hawfyr quoted? There was a statement made in the previous pages that the freebies were being offered by Renderosity. That is what he objected to. Most appear to just be links to the files on the posters' own websites, with Renderosity hosting just an image. Even the bandwidth used to distribute them is being provided by the generous users who choose to offer them. What Renderosity does to support those freebies is almost negligible by comparison, yet they claimed credit for them in this very thread. Does that seem right to you? Now, the other thing that was referred to: Other places make name changes free because all you really should have to do is make one field change in a database. In other places, that user name field is editable by the users after signup. Just like addresses and email addresses are and other information that is subject to change. It's a simple bit of code to put that field in the profile settings. The size of the user base is irrelevant. All it comes down to is the way the database is structured. If it is not structured in a way that will allow this...if it is not normalized and cleanly coded, I mean...then it is a bad database and in need of serious overhaul. I honestly shouldn't have looked back here. I told myself I wouldn't. And some little imp said, "go look." That's my big mistake. I didn't know how childish things were going to get. rolls eyes Neferset

Quote - just checked the username count again - it's up to 473084. apparently a new username is added to the database every 10 minutes, on average. tends to discount the notion that folks are leaving here in droves over the latest snafu :lol:

Not worth laughing. I've been around here a while. I think I had an account I lost the password to from way back. Not just these four years. About as long as you if I can believe the dates on some of the old freebies I have. I felt it was important enough tonight for me to come here and triple my Renderosity posts. That says something, doesn't it? One, that some one chatty as I am at other sites has such a low post count here and another that I'd have to say something now. It isn't just this. I really don't like some of the changes for the store that I've heard about. Makes me want to vote elsewhere with my dollars. Y'all have at. I don't think it's fun anymore. Nef

Quote - Getting people to the site is very important to sales. If people don't come to the site, they can't buy anything.

Or change their user names. Neferset

Now you guys all know why I don't do anything here but use the marketplace (and I've been a member since 2002)...and I've been hearing things in the last six months or so that are making me think twice about that association. If this place is so messed up, code-wise, that you have to resort to this foolishness, you need my services as a programmer. I've been a db admin for six years and worked with php websites for about 4 years. I work freelance and will happily present my requirements in terms of time and pay after I have gotten a look at the structural documentation for what you have now. Oh, and btw. Some of you might have seen me around other places. My user name is usually... Neferset

Neffy doesn't have an account here, so she dispatched me instead. (We're very close. Rumor has it we use the same keyboard...and possibly the same fingers. She never has had an account here, btw. There's only me.) There seem to be a number of misconceptions about who the people of the kmwFC are and what we stand for. It isn't about worship or public ridicule...or even about Jelly Donuts, although you might say they have a symbolic importance. What we are, what we really are, is a group of friends. Have you ever had a group of friends around whom you could say or do anything? A group of friends you could joke with or even mildly insult (in our case with renders), and know with absolute certainty that no one in the group was going to take offense? (But that they would return fire.) A group of friends that you would do anything for (including hold yourself up to a public ribbing) because you love them so much? That's what the kmwFC is. The difference is that we meet in a public forum and provide light entertainment, jelly donuts, and a friendly sense of openness to any and all who pass through our clubhouse. No, you don't have to join in and we really aren't invading other forums. We're just having a little fun, which you were invited to join, if you wished. Since you don't know us, though, and the source material is over 200 pages in length, I will simply wish all of you well. And that's what Neffy would say, if she had an account here. As I said, she doesn't. She would also add that she doesn't ever "mean nuthin' bout nuthin'." Except for what she said here about her friends. That, she really means. 'Than