I didn't know it
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...
Anyway, I'm not too much surprised about it because I think that PP like all commercial-art site was made to earn money, so simply they gave them the right amount of cash and they sold the place.
Now, I don't find that it's [i:6b3eca323e]exactly[/i:6b3eca323e] a wrong thing, because if you see it in a commercial perspective it was a good operation. When a site sell things, not only to survive or make some extras to the owner's wages but in order to be the main source of money for the owner, it become a thing to sell itself.
If someone say me "Hey dude, I'll give you a million dollars for you bus driver job" I'll accept instantly, so all of you would do the same. You may guess what I would reply if someone would offer me some cash for this site.... Well, I'd think about it deeper then what I would think for my job, but at least, I can recreate the same site with a different name without problems because we don't sell anything and the copyrights are on things without a commercial value even if they worth a lot
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for us. (So nobody will offer me a cent for the site... lol...)
We talked about commerce and art a lot of times and you know what's my opinion (you're watching it on the screen
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).
Could a site like this be an alternative to big commercial sites? I think no, or, better, not exactly.
You see what's happen on commercial sites: big money means professional people at work, few software problems, unlimited bandwidth and disk space.
With my money the site has a
noob webmaster (
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), support made on a volunteer basis (
Posy ![](https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif)
) and moderators who do the job for free. None of us is paid so we the job is made in our free time and sometimes the things dont' work
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.
We can't be [i:6b3eca323e]against[/i:6b3eca323e] big sites because it could be very easy to destroy Posetteforever in different ways: The most used way is to infiltrate someone or a group of people who will begin to criticize all and stress the members so much to convince them to go away, and this is the moderators/admins/webmaster job to stop those people. The other way is unstoppable: it will be easy to consume all the limited site's bandwidth with a lot of connections or downloads. if this will happen I'll limit the access to very well known users and accept new members only after an invitation from a known member.
In any case I suggested you a lot of times that if you don't agree with the politic of commercial sites, just use them to post your artwork. I post my pictures on all the sites I know and don't buy anything.
With my Norton Security package I don't even see a banner or a pop-up even if the damn (commercial) Norton-thing costs me 30$ a year, damnit
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!
The cost for not being a commercial things basically is that we'll be always a small group of people, but it doesn't matter as long as we'll have fun doing our artworks
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! If you've fun doing what you do where is the problem
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?
I understand that my way of thinking is very far from the common sense because I make my pictures and also my job as a webmaster of this place only for fun and not to earn money or reach fame and success. If it'll come it's ok, if not what's the problem? I'm (nearly) happy with my life, I've my house, my family, my cats, Posetteforever and my friends
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there and I don't need anything else.