working on it. very frustrating i know.

"I have found an empty space and decided to fill it is all. The "empty space" is that there is no formal ethics training manual on running Online Communities available for Admins, unlike similar training manuals for Mushes and MUD Wizards and roleplay communities. So, seeings as how ethics theory and philosophy has always been an interest of mine, I have decided to write one, chapter by chapter, and run it as an ongoing article in my newsletter. " Mehndi - I hope that you are able to balance the ethics side and the business side without those areas getting clouded by perception of others. Some might ask how ethicial is it for other site admins... -to use other sites features to promote ones own -to feed off another community's issue to generate more members for oneself -to pretend to care about one community in order to gain more for oneself -to encourage others to post on other communities in order to build or continue a false sense of negativity within that community. It can be a very difficult issue. I understand that these might not be considered ethical approaches to take, but on the business side it is considered a competitive approach and is fine. I hope that admins of other sites don't have to make difficult business decisions similar to ours, but if they do - No site will hear from us or our team because...it is our policy not to post negative commentary on other sites. There is a lot of posts on our site that we do not agree with but the members have the right to speak as long as the TOS is followed. In the end, we rely on the members to distinguish between motivated self-interest and constructive critism. tammy

I don't consider you being harsh Illusions. I understand that there are areas that you would like to see improved. And that if you did not care, we probably would not be hearing from you. In our annual admin meeting which was held last week, we discussed some ways to improve the community structure. This is in the beginning stages and will talk more about this in October. thanks tammy

moving to the jobs section.

IMO, there will always be areas that we need to improve and that will be communications, responsiveness, and inconsistencies as you have posted. Managing an international community has different perceptions all the way around. I will say that our team does care about the members and always tries to do the right thing. But it is not viewed that way some of the time. I have to disagree on greed, customer service, and member concerns. If it were just greed, then nothing would be improved on the community side of Renderosity. It is true that we are a business and make decisions as one. I believe our customer service and member feedback is addressed. It might take some time but we generally get it done. From the 1000 emails or more we get a day, the IMs our team receives, forum posts, etc, we stay on top of them. We just completed out community, merchant, and buyer survey. The results look very good. We will be sharing those in October with the community. thanks tammy

Wanted to give an update on this. We have had several discussions regarding our webring and will be making some changes within the next few weeks. To answer this question. According to our current policy. "TERMS AND CONDITIONS: You may post as many links to our site as you like, although we will only track the number of new members who join us after coming from your sites. You may submit any link to 2d/3d art-related sites, as long as the name of the link is not misleading, and it doesn't link to any sort of money making schemes, click brokering, link exchanges, and/or adult sites. This system is intended to share our traffic with our member's Artist Pages only. Your link may not appear on our site until after the first referred member joins up. You may periodically recieve an automated email from us if it is later detected you have removed the link to our website. You agree to accept these emails and not report them as SPAM for as long as you remain in this program. If we find you have deleted your link to us, we reserve the right to remove your sponsorship links on our site. People caught trying to abuse the system, or creating fraudulent accounts to boost their ranking will be banned. These terms are subject to change without notice. We reserve the right to pull any link at any time." The members site is not violating the webring terms and conditions. I think the confusion is the webring is being viewed in terms of our TOS. However, we do feel that the terms and conditions of the webring need to be improved and our team is currently working on this. We have not had a good system in place for monitoring the webring and will be making programming changes to this as well. Once these have been completed and implemented we will communicate in forum news. thanks tammy

I was referring to admins... I think our mods do an excellent job trying to answer member questions. tammy

I can see how it can be perceived this way. We tend to work on harder issues behind the scenes. Communicating with those that are directly involved and tend to monitor but not participate in the public communications. I would say the best way to judge how we are doing would be based on what changes, improvements, advances you see within Renderosity. I hope your perceived good changes overcast the ones you did not like. But I would say the communications to the public is an area that we need to improve. tammy

interesting... what does others think about this? tammy

Still working on the server issues.

thank you and glad you like it. we will introduce some additional sorting so that members can view archived works. we know some members used those sorting features as ways to preview archived images. tammy

I had a good laugh. :) Trying to be consistent with what has been handled in the past. Your images probably would not be considered degrading the trademark and most likely would fall under the satire rules. Being conservative. tammy

I see you guys have been having some fun. :) I found some of images to be funny myself, unfortunately I had to remove the images since that is copyright and trademark issues without consent from the holder. thanks tammy

Very welcome. ;) Enjoy.

Refrigerator art - artwork created by your kids that you want to post on the virtual refrigerator gallery. :)