Jules53757 posted at 10:49PM Tue, 10 May 2016 - #4268176

Maybe it's due to the fact that nearly all staff members know this site nd most of them use the tool made by basicwiz.

If they really did know and really use the tool, they'd know EZMetals was not made by BasicWiz, but by me. These pathetic excuses would be funny if they weren't such a joke.

Anyway, I'm glad the staff enjoy using my EZMetals, even if they don't allow anyone else to find them easily. A bit bloody selfish, but there ya go.

So ... only once. Years ago. With only anecdotal evidence.

Anyway, thank you for acknowledging that it is completely irrelevant.

Any responsible customer-focused organization which discovered that a link on their site lead to a virus would immediately warn any all other members of the specific danger so that anyone else who had followed the link might check their system for malware and/or delete the download. It would be totally irresponsible to discover a link to malware and then not tell the community about it.

I have NEVER been alerted to such a threat. When I asked for a link to such warnings in the past, the request was completely ignored.

From this I conclude that either (a) the idea that numerous members have gotten viruses from links on Renderosity is a lie concocted to justify an otherwise obviously idiotic policy or (b) it is true and Renderosity is an irresponsible organization that does not really care for the protection of its members.

So, once again to the admin who claimed her son had got a virus from a link on Renderosity: exactly what action did you take to warn all other members who might have downloaded that same file? Please provide a link to the community notification of the danger.

Hey, we're getting somewhere :) I do hope, though, that this spontaneous foray into creative writing isn't distracting you too much from answering the question posed earlier in the thread ;-)

Anyway ...

.. Your article interested me on many levels. I'm no expert on love either, despite the amount of practice I've had I could, however, empathise with much of what you wrote. In my early years love was a very confusing matter but, like you, there came a time when it started to make sense. Unfortunately, I'm a generation older than you and I've had time to go full full circle and find it confusing all over again. Still, it's more fun this time around!

It's interesting that you emphasise the differences between people. Certainly they exist and it's the subtle nuances between us that keeps life vibrant and interesting, but perhaps people are more similar than they are different? I'll propose an idea: maybe it's our similarities that makes art possible?

By way of explanation, consider what it would be like if everyone spoke a different language? Nobody would be able to communicate effectively. Speaking a common language helps us to understand each other. Likewise, that our emotions share a common language and experience means that an artist can communicate through their work with us at an emotional level. A sad film, an uplifting song, a funny joke, a romantic love poem - they all work because people get them, they elicit the same emotions that the artist had in mind when creating their work.

So when someone writes about love as you did, or Byron pens his love poems, or Bronte writes her love stories, perhaps they are illustrating just how similar we all are, that we should understand them and respond to them in such similar ways.

What do you think?

Why not share some of your writing with us? While you may not share our love of 3D art, the desire to be creative in other ways could still help establish a common bond. To show good faith, I shall reciprocate, by sharing a piece of my own poetry inspired by Poe ...

Regret

In a shadow'd room lit by a mocking flame

I look upon your face, say your secret name.

Though Time has told its evil lies

To hide your beauty from my eyes,

I am not deceived by that Eternal Liar

You are, to me yet fair; still my heart's desire.

(Can beauty live though its body dies?

Can a heart love, though it cries?)

No breath escapes your lips, so still your pale breast,

Your heart beats no more; no dream disturbs your rest.

I reach, take your cold hand in mine

(Lifeless fingers with mine entwine),

I long to hold you now, to stroke your ruined hair,

Kiss those ashen lips that taste of my despair.

(How long have you lain in this dark place?

How long since that last, fatal embrace?)

Crimson tears, that stain mute lips with living red

I weep, and wish it were I who lay there dead.

(In time you'll be no more than dust

Victim of my unholy lust)

You begged for life, I gave you death, would not give

That eternal life of sorrow that my kind live.

hopeandlove posted at 6:16PM Wed, 02 March 2016 - #4258864

My favorite genres are drama, romance and comedy. I'd say I'm a true romantic at heart! I'm partial to Edgar Allan Poe, Nicholas Sparks, Sarah Dessen - just to name a few.

I love Edgar Allen Poe! Do you prefer his stories or his poetry?

fivecat posted at 5:00PM Wed, 02 March 2016 - #4258862

Sorry, I'll tiptoe out of the forum.

Don't you dare :-) I was only pointing out that questions aren't being answered yet. Your question is a cool one and could get this thread back on course again. Let's hope it is answered too.

We have asked questions. I asked three in my last post. I should like to see answers to those, if that's ok.

"Why is it better ... yada yada"

Clearly no-one was listening the first time, so here we go again.

First, let's make an important distinction which seems to have been overlooked by Admins here. The Poser community is not the same as the Renderosity community. The Rendo community is only a subset of the Poser community. However, Rendo members are, usually, part of the larger Poser community too. So rules intended to benefit the rendo community but which harm the larger Poser community are not going to be popular, even with rendo members. With that understood, let's move on...

(a) There are a whole load of amazing free motor cycle models out there, in the Poser community, made by Peter Koever. Unfortunately, when people want one of his models, we are no longer allowed to link to his downloads. They are pretty cool, though. you should go find them. Seriously, you should. then you'll understand why it is unkind to the community to not allow links to them. Enjoy the hassle of finding them. Now here's the rub: Peter is dead. It is highly unlikely that you're going to be able to get him to create a Renderosity account and upload his freebies here. Before he died he gave permission for his freebies to made a available to the community under certain conditions, so we have the benefit of them Well, everyone except Rendo members...

(b) Check out BluEcho's Antonia freebies website. Oh wait, you can't. Maybe try and find it via Google. Found it? You probably didn't bother, but let's pretend you did :-) You will see that on the site is a collection of fabulous freebies for the free Antonia model, all made by different people. If you want to get started with the Antonia model, that is the place to go. The freebies are there for the whole Poser community to enjoy. Please explain why you think it would be better for those freebies to be only available to the Rendo community, and scattered across the free stuff area here under each contributor's own account (and, of course, losing those made by people without an account here), rather than having them conveniently all in one place for the benefit of the whole community?

(c) I make freebies for the entire Poser community, including Rendo members. They are quite popular, with literally thousands of downloads each. Explain to me why it is better for the Poser community for me to upload them only to Renderosity, accessible only to Renderosity members? Or do you expect me to upload them to every community site individually, with all the different submission requirements, promo requirements? No, I'm keeping them all in one place where the whole Poser community has access. They don't even need an account to download stuff. And each download has a news page which informs users of the planned future developments etc. At the moment, every community site out there knows where to find my freebies. It's only rendo members who can't be told...

Poser users (and other users most likely) go from one community site to the next, getting freebies from all of them, chatting with fellow artists on all of them, and buying from all of them (not all have stores, mind you). That is the 'community' people talk about here. Rendo is just part of it. But the rules being introduced here are putting up huge barriers to the community way of life, in the hope that it will somehow benefit Rendo members, forgetting that they are also part of the wider Poser community you are isolating yourselves from. And, as you can see from the responses here, it isn't working out too good, is it?

When you understand how an online artistic community works, we might see fewer of these dumbass rules that are benefiting nobody at all, not even Rendo. All these freebie removals, gallery deletions and going to other sites to chat cannot be good for Rendo?

I hope that helps. When you start taking into account the needs of the whole community, not just Rendo's little bit of it, that's when things will start improving and the anger will subside. This policy of isolationism is having a predicable effect and is not doing Rendo any good at all.

They weren't presented in any way at all, and you know it. There was only a suggestion that someone might want to google for them. How on earth is that a personal attack?? Insecure, or what?

I'd be honoured of someone wanted to google for my published work on the internet. Which, in fact, they often do :-)

hopeandlove posted at 10:27PM Tue, 01 March 2016 - #4258614

So, let's get to the true premise of your argument and stop dealing with pretexts. Provide me the reason(s) why it is more suitable for a member to have to click a link and go to a third party site to download a freebie rather than click a link that takes them to our existing Free Stuff area, since that member is already on the site, to download the Free Item that has been reviewed by our staff to be safe? Tell me how the third party option makes more sense and provides an equal or greater sense of security and privacy for the member by leaving the site to download an item from a site they are likely not familiar with otherwise? Secondly, what is the purpose of having a Free Stuff area if it is to be circumvented by members providing links to third party sites to get Free Stuff. How does that improve Renderosity site traffic and make the process more simple, safe, and convenient for the member if they are just coming here to sort through links to go to a third party website to get free items completely bypassing the already existing Free Stuff area?

Thanks.

That you don't understand the reasons** after they have already been explained multiple times in other threads** shows that: a) You are totally out of touch with how the community works, and b) You really are not listening

I'd like to know why you're so ashamed and embarrassed of your online published writing that you or your colleagues immediately delete any post which even mentions them, without any explanation at all and without due regard for the TOS?

You say you want us to get to know you, yet you steadfastly refuse to answer any questions about your artistic interests. Why?

Then we discover that you're a writer and as that may well be your only pretension to any kind of artistic endeavour we are naturally interested.

So why the draconian censorship of posts that do not contravene the TOS in any way at all, but just suggest people Google to see what you have published yourself openly on the web?

SeanMartin posted at 9:36PM Thu, 25 February 2016 - #4257367

Just my 0.02...

Thank you. Your evaluation of its worth matches mine very closely.

DreaminGirl posted at 11:18PM Sun, 21 February 2016 - [#4256591]

I've had that feeling for a while.. but part of me has just refused to give up!

That's what they're relying on ...

You keep going on about change 'being hard' and 'taking time to get used to', as though we are averse to change. This shows (yet again) how little you understand us. We are not averse to change. We have been begging for change for a long time in the forums. We want change. But we mean change for the better.

What we've had is change for worse time and time again: Home page change, Forum software, chat room, Prime, Galleries, Freestuff - every change has made things worse in the eyes of so many. And now this dumb TOS change which is clearly hugely unpopular, in case you hadn't noticed.

Changes for the worse will still be changes for the worse no matter how much you spread them out. Stop trying to divert the problem onto us for being 'against change'. We're not.

And I don't think anyone hates you. But certainly the disgraceful treatment of 3-dArena, the ignoring of questions asked of you in threads, the censoring of valid opinions etc. are not endearing you to some parts of the community.

As for being a great listener, well, there's a difference between being a listener and great listener. That difference is engagement, understanding and empathy with the other person. It might be prudent to just call yourself a 'listener' and let others decide how great you are, pending a demonstration of such qualities?

Thank you so much for listening and have a lovely, wonderful day!