I agree with everything as been said so far. Free stuff area is important because it attracts a lot of people, many people register here just to download free items, then they look at the pictures and finally go to the market place.
I support the three points of Pauljs75 post.

"sorry to nick your thread"!  but this is a question for a freebee forum, oh yeah! but we don't have it?!
A freebee forum, IMHO, would be good for the following reasons:

1. info to newbies
2. try to make standard rules (i.e. where to put the ReadMe.txt, for ex. and some other things)
3. what are the most wanted items (useful information also for the market place)
4. IMHO Renderosity is the best place on the Internet for free stuff (if you know a better one, let me know;-). Free stuff section is very attractive (personally I registered here for that); then after having downloaded many free items, one goes to the market place... The best is the free stuff section, the better will be the market place.
5. market place and free stuff are usually intended for Poser stuff, but both should be developped also for other softwares. It's usually easier to lauch a trend with free stuff...
6. Some people don't have so much money to spend, they rely on free stuff. Otherwise they give up. If a community can give them some support with some average good, free, products, well, that's not so bad! Some will continue seeking for vendors. Other will continue just for fun. Great, isn't it?

WE WANT A FREEBEE FORUM!!

P:S. We already have the moderator: Bar-Code

Yes, I agree with Bar-Code a freebee forum would be great! After all the free stuff section is quite important, it attracts a lot of people (actually I think that Rendo's free stuff area is the best free stuff area on the Internet; personally I registered here precisely for this); a freebee forum will be nice!

Ok! ( there has been a sudden wake-up in the free stuff section with 22 new items posted  in the last 5 mn (!) and mine is among them). Thanks.

Thanks!
 after a little search for "image hosting" I have found Photobucket.com (Photobasket.com does no more exist) and succeeded in fixing the question. By the way I continue to not really understand why Renderosity doesn't host the thumbnails for freestuff (after all they are images like those we upload in the galleries and they are even smaller!). I understand for the zip files which can be quite large, but why not for thumbnail (maybe as an option when uploading images). Such a possibility would give the freestuff area a much cleaner presentation.

"Hope this helps"
yes and no (anyway thanks for the quick answer).
The problem is that many FREE  hosting-files sites or web sites do not allow "remote loading of images" (if I understand what it is, but I'm not sure...). Maybe you have some suggestion of a free place where I could post my thumbnail?
Thanks again.