"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.