Although it's a sad commentary. I've noticed more and more as I spin through Poser marketplaces, particularly Renderosity's because I hit it so much, that much of the stuff for sale now looks like the freebies section a few years ago. Not saying it's low quality -- far from it. It just seems like more people are chosing to sell than give away. And sadly, I'm beginning to understand why. Over the last several months, I've been getting more and more harassment because of freebies I have up. I'm not talking about bug reports -- I appreciate those so I can make my stuff better. I mean out and out harassment, insults, cussing, demands, threats and worse. My spirit sister, who has been watching this happen to me more and more often and seen me stress about it more and more, finally summed it up well in an e-mail after an exceptionally hard weekend. What she said: "And if you could do it easily, if I were you, this would be a good argument for selling your stuff rather than putting it in freebies in the future. Some people obviously don't appreciate the gifts; maybe they'll appreciate something with monetary value. And if they don't, then at the very least you could be getting some compensation for putting up with their bullshit." It saddens me, but I'm beginning to think she's right. It seems to be a sad facet of human nature that "without price" is mistaken for "without worth". On one hand, I enjoy giving away some of my creations for free. It's great when someone sends me an e-mail thanking me because it was just what they needed. I've also gotten a number of e-mails asking for help unrelated to a freebie because someone saw my work, and I'm complimented and delighted to be considered skillful enough and nice enough for someone to come to me for help. God has blessed me enough that I can afford to give away freebies, and I used to enjoy doing it. On the other hand, it seems no good deed goes unpunished, and I'm not sure how much more punishment I can take. I imagine if I added up that positive messages they'd outnumber the negative ones, but right now it wouldn't be by much. As my spirit sister also said, "I've seen bratty kindergarteners with less sense of entitlement than these clowns have subjected you to lately." Maybe this is atypical and I've done something to make myself a target. I don't know. I have some close-to-done projects that I haven't decided if I'll sell, give away, or just sit on. I'll figure it out when they're finished. It makes me wonder, though. At first I thought the increase in the marketplace was more hobbyists needing their Poser habit to be more self-supporting, but now I wonder if maybe many of them decided it was better to block out many who would enjoy their work if they meant they wouldn't have to wake up to another flame from a true Poser Dork.