It wasn't intended to be snide, Jack and I apologize if it came across that way..:) Melissa

Jack, while I don't disagree with your issues I should make one distiction which I think you overlooked in my original post. This idea was in addition to the propsed idea of tracking the time one spends at the site...not in place of it....and there is no gaurantee that the admins will even consider anything we are suggesting here so we might as well offer the most complete suggestion of all(assuming that everyone agrees, this is of course up to everyone). And I'm aware it would take alot of work and that the staff already works hard...I am a web developer myself and am aware of what would be involved in a project such as this one..:) Melissa

well I guess...my actual issue was that the power to make that decision was taken away, period...I'm going to try to hope that it was just a mistake, which doesn't really make me feel better because that would only mean they never intended for us to have that right in the first place but it's better than thinking it was for some ulterior motive...anyway, even if I don't like it I will still support the COMMUNITY, I mean I have alot of friends who try to earn extra cash here and I even once had a store as well...really the people who will be hurt by me not contributing will be my friends since the site will continue to run with or without my help...but I understand how you feel.

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that is true Jack, but maybe going forward there could be code in place that just makes a record of when a contribution is made and that information stays with the user's information in the database....none of this would be easy to implement, that goes without saying...

lol...so does mine..;D

and there would just have to be a record of it, since I know it is sometimes hard to find places to host things and it's impossible for some to keep them up forever and not everyone wants to buy things at the marketplace continually....

actually I had just remembered as you replied that there were other forms of contributions, such as Tutorials and Articles that one could make....also I don't think Renderosity hosts any of the free stuff...none of my freebies are hosted here but they are listed in the database..:)

well here's a thought, may not be a popular one but it is a thought. Perhaps a members contributions could make them eligble to vote as well. A contribution could either be in the form of a marketplace purchase or a donation to free stuff(made at some point, doesn't have to be a contiual thing)...this could be in addition to the rule of having had to spend X number of hours here and it's doubful that a person with 20 accounts would want to log in under a different user ID every time they made a purchase or what have you since that would get confusing and expensive...I guess the downfall is that the same person could just upload a peice of crap to free stuff under each username to establish their eligibility as well but I think they would be less likely, considering all the other check systems in place, fewer and fewer with multiple accounts would be able to meet all critera...

If you are refering to what I said and only what I said then it isn't there "in black and white" as you say. BOTTOM LINE: _________________________________________________________ I don't think any vote should ever be taken away from anyone based on previous decisions or for any other reason. While in my opinion I think that some people made a STUPID DECISION about the AOM vote for Legume that does not mean that I think they, personally, are stupid. I'm sure there are quite a few intelligent people who voted for him I just do not agree with it and never will(if you really want to know why I don't like his work, then IM me, because I am done discussing this here for I have better things to do with my time). And above all, The admins have now admitted that the vote was never intended to go to the community and that they put up the poll by mistake which nullifies the need for this entire argument alltogether. _________________________________________________________ Now that I have made my position very clear NUMEROUS TIMES I will refrain from responding to any further attempts by anyone else to pretend that I meant something other than what I said. I see no need to defend myself any further since in all truth, I know in my mind what I stand for and that's all that matters to me. Those who are capable of being fair will understand what I have said and those who have issues will continue to look for that which isn't there.

I agree Billy, in fact I did respond on this same subject in another thread, I am glad to know now that it was just a mistake. However, if someone chooses to attack me I will defend myself and that's the only reason this thread continues. I know what happened now but as long as another chooses to put words in my mouth I will make sure the truth about my own intentions are known. Oh, and thanks Tammy..:) Thanks, Melissa

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Twist it whatever way you want. The bottom line is that I never said anyone was stupid or said that the vote should be taken away from them because of their past decisions, that's the bottom line no matter how badly you wish it wasn't.

No you are still trying to put words in my mouth...period....I have stated numerous times that I didn't support the poll being removed which is what you tried to say in your paraphrase: "you people would be making a stupid decision if the poll was allowed to continue" I only pointed out that I never said any such thing but from the way you worded it, you attributed that logic to me which is wrong. Though you would very much like to be able to say that I'm calling the rest of the community stupid and unable to make decision, that isn't the case. I have made it clear numerous times that what I really believed was that choosing Legume as an AOM was a stupid move and that I also think selecting him as AOY would be equally stupid based on my feelings on the subject, there has still been not reference to anyone's intelligence or ability to make further decisions. You read into my posts what you want to read because you know I don't like the same artist you do.