Hi. I just wanted to say that I learned some non-art-related things I thought very worthwhile recently. And I learned them on Renderosity. In this forum.

They were posts in OT threads, and the threads were controversial, and things were said and offenses were taken, and -- though the discussions never degenerated to anywhere near the low level they do on some sites -- the threads were eventually locked.

Well, that's Renderosity's decision. Some obviously thought these threads were not locked nearly soon enough, and I bet some think they should not have been locked at all. But on to my point:  I realize this is a forum that is primarily intended for discussing Poser, and when these sorts of subjects come up, some certainly do say things and offenses are taken, and there's the TOS, etc., etc., but I just wanted to take a moment to say that there are a lot of intelligent people on this forum and it is just too bad that such OT discussions are too often an excuse to become abusive and too bad that such OT discussions have to be locked, because ... well, as I said at the start, I learned some things I thought very worthwhile, and I just hope a few others did as well.