There's a rant I want to make.  And I know several of these things have been said before, but I'd like them in one place.

After I received Poser 7 when it came out, I started on a complete re-install of my downloaded content.  Still haven't gotten through half the V3 stuff yet, but I've been doing it slowly to organize the folders in (to me) a rational manner) in different runtimes, checking the references in each zip and exe to make sure the pointers are correct, so on and so forth.  And after you do a few hundred of them in a short period of time, you tend to notice the things that bother you.  It was in this spirit that the following was inspired.

Rule 1: You Are Not the Most Important Person In the World.

Naming the readme file "Readme" sort of assumes that it's the only file I'm going to have with that name, doesn't it?  Now, while I like your stuff (otherwise I wouldn't have bought it and downloaded it), that doesn't mean that you're the only person in the world whose product I'm going to buy, and as such, so that your Readme isn't overwritten by their Readme, wouldn't it make sense to give your Readme file, heck, your Readme folder, a name which logically connects it to the product you want me to read about?

Rule 2: I Am Not A Mindreader

In a similar note, if you want me to read your readme files, it might behoove you to place said files in a location where I would expect to find them.  Buried in the library folders is not where I expect to find them.  Placing them outside the Runtime folder, that's logical.

Rule 3: I Am Not Using Your Computer

Your Geometries folder might rest happily in C:Documents and SettingsuserMyPoserStuff.  Mine doesn't.

Rule 4: I Am Still Not Using Your Computer

Which makes it rather difficult when the product I bought from you includes a reference to a reflection map or a texture that's not part of your product but is on your computer.  And not mine.

Rule 5: I Will Decide What's Important on My Computer, Not You

Quick Quiz:  Naming a file "! ! ! ImNumberOne.pz2" to get it to the top of the list in the library is
a) Dumb
b) Annoying
c) Unnecessary, since the folder it's in should have a unique name anyway, right?
d) Make me want to track down the merchant and beat them over the head with a keyboard
e) All of the above

Now that isn't to say that using the exclamation mark to get something to the top a file isn't justified.  I like having the character inj and rem files right at the top.  But having EVERY SINGLE FILE in that character's folder having multiple exclamation marks in front of it is stupid.

Rule 6: Remember That I Might Actually Buy Other Stuff From You

So when all your mat files or your pose files for all your products are named creatively, you know, like "01.pz2" and "02.pz2", and all your folders for different products also have the exact same name, one wonders if you only ever want any single person to only ever get a single one of your products so that they don't overwrite each other.

Rule 7: Just Because You Can Use Really Long Names Doesn't Mean You Have To

I mean, it's not that I don't get enjoyment out of looking at pose files and trying to figure out which one I want to use.  Who wouldn't want to joy of seeing two thumbnails in the library with the exact same truncated name underneath them and guessing which one is the one you want to use?

Rule 8: My Textures Folder Is Possibly More Complicated Than Yours

":skinbody.jpg" might be a perfectly valid reference in a cr2 or a mat file  for your apparently near-empty textures folder.  However, given that I'm likely to have about 3,122 files with that name, your folder in the Texture directory doesn't have a name I can easily find, your readme file is located in the Hands folder and doesn't tell me what your folder holding the textures is anyway, do not be surprised if people get somewhat annoyed.  See also Rules 3 and 4.