Quote - I was curious as to total membership, so I checked - it bottoms out at userid 472948. it appears the database also stores usernames that are no longer in use, which may be a feature to consider pruning, as it must bog things down a bit for the database software to hafta search thru tens of thousands of defunct usernames every time somebody wants to join here. I think they pruned alotta usernames when jack took over, then again, when he sold it to tim.

Ahh but then they couldn't claim "almost half a million users" when trying to sell this crap to other businesses and when coming up with excuses for why they can't do stuff for free that virtually every other place can and will do ;)

Poser 4 doesn't allow for multiple runtimes which is why many people use Pboost.

Xena,
I am guessing "customer service" is not that big factor since you purchased products from SanctumArt before. Did you ever need help, if so did you attempt to contact me??? From my memory, Uzilite/wusamah is NOT really active in the forums same as SanctumArt. Customer service does not equal to be social interaction in the forums. If that you looking for when you purchase products, that is yours choice. I got the definition of "customer service" from www.dictonary.com-"Main Entry:customer service
Definition: assistance and other resources that a company provides to the people who buy or use its products or services." Thank you.

LOL Going to go out on a limb here and guess that talking down to your and/or being snide with your customers (and potential customers) is probably also not in that definition of "customer service."

The SA products are not my cup of tea really, but even if they were, I wouldn't buy from them mostly based on posts like this one and many of the ones at DAZ.

Talking down to people that give you their hard earned money is poor customer service even if you are attempting to answer questions, IMO.

As an aside I also don't like a lot of their ad copy wording for similar reasons, but it's possible there are some language barriers involved.

I guess your business decisions are your's to remain private (as certainly is your right), but it's ok to talk about your customers? They are not afforded the same confidentality? I realize mentioning that Xena has purchased from you isn't a huge deal, but she Xena didn't mention it, it IS giving out customer information on a public message board.

somehow I doubt we will get that lucky based on the number of times you have been leaving Daz "forever".

If you know the name of movie, which you obviously do, you can find the final clue. It has to do with DAZ and even using their internal search engine will bring you to one instance of the thing.

It really has very little to do with it and I found it without having seen the movie.

I guarentee you have enough information to find it just based on what you have said both here and the thread at DAZ.

because of the honorable decisions they made to correct a difficult situation.

A difficult situation that they, in fact, created by a) not listening to the people that said the model had serious flaws and wasn't ready to be released; b) very obviously not putting her through even the barest of testing and certainly far less testing than merchants items are put through; and c) not bothering to even take a peek when the model had a very obvious resemblence to V3.

I personally have a lot of trouble IDing models particularly when they don't have hair and I took one look at Renda and said wow she looks a whole lot like Vicky.

Oh, look! Poppies!!! Maybe this explains what the PTB were on when they unleashed this mess ;)

When you finally find a domain name that can be used, buy the other two popular extensions (.net, .org) at the same time. For all you know, someone may buy the .net and create a web site that is rather...shall we say...unsavory. This is good advice. I wish I had known this years ago when I got my main domain (this was back when network solutions was about the only place you could get them and it was like $35/year). My website is myfirstname.com (my real name not myfirstname LOL) and it's unusual so I didn't really worry about it cause it's never taken anywhere. About 3 years after I got it someone picked up the .net version and they run a MLM scam of some kind. Not only do I get tons of spam from their "partners", but they even put their own addresses in at .com so I get tons of their personal mail and such as well. I have written to them nicely over the years with no luck so I finally started writing to any of their "partners" that sent me email and told them to stop immediately or I would report them to their ISPs as spamming me. Several of them responded immediately that they had no idea, were sorry and would take anything with my domain off their lists and they did stop. One person said they would and did not. I reported them ONCE and since then they have stopped. I imagine since they are not really on the up and up (IMO at least) that they prefer not to be reported constantly by the same site. I keep an eye on it and if it ever comes open I will grab it just to stop the hassle. Now when I get spam addressed to any of their addresses, I have a filter set up to automatically forward it to them since I wouldn't want them to miss out on all the great offers I am getting for them ;)

*Sorry.....but to me, these types of things are prime examples of 'nitpicking'.

People are what they are. They all have differing levels of elocution; vocabulary; grasp of grammar; and talent at expressing themselves.

Not all of us were English majors.*

Well to me they make my eyes burn and it's exceedingly hard for me to read them and have any kind of comprehension.

I personally don't happen to think one needs to be an English major to realize that it's easier to read things that are put in paragraphs or have some white space between them. Sad commentary on the educational system if you can't even figure out how to hit the enter key once in a while.

I do try to read posts that are made by someone that is obviously not a native English speaker even if they do something that would normally annoy me because they are at least trying to communicate and it's not their fault that English is not their first language and has tons of weird rules that other languages do not.

I have bad eyesight and am prone to migraines, reading print with no whitespace aggravates that. I am not suggesting anyone change their posting style to please me. I simply do not read posts like that and honestly, I don't think I'm really in the minority. Most people just don't feel the need to publicize it.

I don't recall ever mentioning your (or anyone else's) posting style before this thread. Really I could care less what most people do, but if they are posting in a style they know is annoying to people then I think they have to realize that even good points they may have will be lost or overlooked because people aren't reading their posts.

I don't care either way..I'm mainly a lurker unless something particularly strikes me. Even then 7 out of 10 times I don't end up posting anyway.

I'm bowing out of this thread now simply because it's been derailed pretty far at this point and none of the stuff we are discussing was really the intent of any of my posts.

If you wish to continue it however, in this case I would be happy to do so in PM..not because I have any reason to hide..I just imagine we will get nailed for being OT pretty soon here.

As I said I have nothing against you personally and the points you have made (that I have read) I do not find to necessarily be without merit or intelligence.

I happen to believe people can disagree and it's not an earth shaking end of the world kind of thing. I disagree with my friends all the time or they with me and yet we manage to maintain friendships just fine ;)
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.......but I wonder......is it the 'style'.......or is it the conclusions...........?

I don't know how much more clearly I can state that it is the style. I have equal problems with people that post exceedingly long posts with no paragraphs as another example.

I also don't like people that use all caps for no apparent reason (using them for emphasis is different).

It's just a personal thing for the most part and nothing against the poster themselves. Frankly, I don't know whether I agree with you on most things or if I disagree, because generally speaking I don't read your posts because of the style. Obviously, I do read them on occasion or at least skim them.

I happen to be reading them in this particular thread (well skimming them which as you may have figured out is why I ended up editing that post 2 times earlier because I ended up going back and actually reading them) since I am actually conversing with you (such as it is) in this thread.

And in regard to Swamp's "Ignore post" thread above, if the "ignore" feature worked with this forum software, they would already have implemented it. Maybe the inability to implement the "ignore" function is one reason why OT forums will never work here, because it's impossible to selectively filter out the destructive malcontents.

Came here via an ebot so I haven't read that thread yet, but I will when I get to actually reading the forum.

They didn't used to have an EDIT function for many years despite it being asked for for a long time either and now they do so who knows. There is a difference between unable and unwilling to implement something.

I know an ignore feature wouldn't help a lot of people because curosity would get the better of them and they would end up "having" to know what that person was saying. I'm not that way personally. If I want to ignore someone for whatever reason then I have no desire to see what they say..why aggravate myself. I realize that probably isn't the "norm" for many forum readers though ;)

*Interesting.

I've heard others say similar things before. About getting nasty PM's and such.

For all of the forumizing that I've done over the years, I've only received one nasty PM -- and that one wasn't on this site.*

I generally do not have a problem with this type of thing either. In my case, it's not someone even involved in the Poser community. It's someone that I thought was a friend for many years. We had a falling out, but of course because we were (what I thought was) close friends for many years, they knew about my using poser, sites I visit etc. Not just regarding poser, but anything I have done over the many years we were friends.

Instead of being an adult about it and just leaving me alone, a consideration I give to them, they decided that it would be "fun" to follow me around and let me know they are "watching" what I am doing online.

I personally wouldn't waste my time doing that to anyone, let alone someone that has made it VERY clear that they want nothing more to do with me, but to each their own. I don't particularly care if they see my posts after I have made them..I'm not hiding in that sense. I just don't like being "watched" when I'm minding my own business reading forums.

If R'osity had a feature to hide online status I would not have had to make a clone account. I don't have one on any other site that I visit because they all have that feature.

Edited to add: I don't have any particular problem with XENOPHONZ. I just find his particular posting style rather annoying and therefore usually skip his posts for that reason.

Edited to add again: Sorry not fully awake here so missed some stuff when I skimmed posts the first time. I wasn't implying that you (XENOPHONZ) would say that about me not having a gallery etc. I can honestly say I never have seen you do that kind of thing and as I said I don't have a problem with you per se..just don't like your posting style. That is an argument that does crop up quite often here though, so I just wanted to nip it in the bud.

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I agree Bonnie, particularly where there is not a good quote function on this board either.

Since people don't tend to quote entire posts and also don't have the name of who they are quoting automatically put in the reply people wouldn't see so much of what people they might have on ignore are saying and not be so tempted to respond ;)

Another feature which would be nice is the ability to hide your online status. It might cut down some on clone accounts as well (it would have in my case at least).

Every other board I visit has that feature so I can just use my real account and not have my time there watched by my friendly internet stalker. Here I had to make a clone account because that feature doesn't exist and I got tired of being contacted via pm/email with details about when I was viewing R'osity etc.

Not that it's anyone's business really why I have a clone account, just nipping that "you don't have a gallery, you have only been a member xxx days so you can't possibly have a valid point thing" in the bud. I'm not hiding so no one knows my true opinions. I just don't wish certain people to know when I am actively on a site.

Ok for the people that still can't keep up... I posted my previous post about the clone comment because of this post: 101. Re: Once again, SndCastie swings her indiscriminate morality axe by mateo_sancarlos on 5/4/05 13:06 Xeno, I may have missed some fine nuances from the forum mavens here, but are they saying you and Lorna are clones? I guess it would explain alot, but I don't believe it myself. Then XENO went on to post this 104. Re: Once again, SndCastie swings her indiscriminate morality axe by XENOPHONZ on 5/4/05 14:15 but are they saying you and Lorna are clones? I guess it would explain alot, but I don't believe it myself. Who knows? The "clone" issue sort of went over my head in this context......... We've also had some other vague accusations made here....without actually naming any names. It's done that way in order to protect the innocent -- of course. Vague-hint types of accusations also provide a handy out for the accusers -- if they are called on it, then there's always plausible deniability. "Hey, who said that I was talking about you.......? Feeling guilty, are you? You must be guilty." Or so I suspect that the reasoning goes. which made it sound like he didn't know what they were talking about or that it was a vague accusation when it clearly was not since he posted 2 posts in a row under 2 different, yet very similar names. Due to the nature of his name (all caps) it's easy to miss something small like one letter difference..or if you are like me, it's easy to miss cause you tend to scroll past his posts as fast as you can since there is STILL no ignore feature at R'osity.

I believe this is what they are referring to about the obvious clone accounts

1. Re: Once again, SndCastie swings her indiscriminate morality axe by XENOPHONX on 5/3/05 21:39

2. Re: Once again, SndCastie swings her indiscriminate morality axe by XENOPHONZ on 5/3/05 21:40

XENOPHONX and XENOPHONZ