Thanks again Johnny, that's the answer I was hoping for. Obviously it would be case by case and down to the discretion of the mods.

My next example is on the face of it a clear case of "no, that's not allowed", but I'd like to argue that under certain circumstances it should be allowed. The situation is that a post contains a link to a freebie in the Renderosity FreeStuff and an offsite link to an alternative download location.

The initial post on that thread is a good example. It has two download links for the freebie in question: the first in Renderosity FreeStuff; the second, an alternative download at ShareCG.

(N.B. the Renderosity FreeStuff link no longer works because I've removed all my freebies from Renderosity. But for the purposes of this question please imagine that I hadn't removed them, and that both links still worked)

Renderosity is one of the few places where you have to be logged in to view the threads (I believe that's true?). Note also that at ShareCG you have to be logged in to download anything.

So anybody reading the post with the two download links would already be logged in at Renderosity and would be presented with two options for the download. I would assume that, all things being equal*, most people would use the Renderosity FreeStuff download.

If there was a problem with the Renderosity FreeStuff download (as has happened once in the past when a FreeStuff item of mine vanished for no apparent reason) then the alternative download link comes into play.

So does this argument hold any water - would alternative download links like this be permitted ?

*the problem is that they are not. (<==that's supposed to be underlined and in italics)

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