i am i the middle about this whole thing. and i would like to post my opinion about a few things that people have said......when i first found sharecg,i was looking through the freebies on renderosity.i clicked on one and it brought me here.i had never seen this site befor and i wanted to know what it was.so,i read everything and found that if i uploaded my free stuff here i could be paid for it.so i decided to make freebies and make them as good as i could spending ALL of my free time doing so.what i have uploaded is not at all crap. the first few months i was here i was making just over 20 dollars per month.and i thought that was kind of a low amount and decided to just make more stuff and try to get more views,still keeping the quality at my best.few more monthswith more uploads and more page views,the money amont kept goin down.untill was getting a payout every other moth because i didnt reach my 20 dollar minimum. yesterday i read about the payouts being stopped altogether. my first reaction was shock.and then i got a little bit angry.i couldnt believe it. i came into the forums to see what other people were saying about it. something i dont agree with: whoever takes their stuff off of th site now are probably the ones abusing it. this is not true.i wanted to take all of my stuff off of here right away....but i didnt want everyone to start thinking that i was abusing the site. my number one reason for signing up in the first place was so that i could make money doing what i love to do.i thought it was a neat idea. so what i have decided to do was take some of my stuff off of here and open my own storefront.because i dont want to leave all together but i think i should be getting paid for all of my hard work that i put into making my stuff. one other thing.... i think jake said that one of the reasons for the stop in payment was the huge amount of crap uploads....how does that make sense? what if the whole site had been nothing but top quality uploads.......the payments still would have stopped because of the amount of uploads the site has. too many uploads and not enough money is the actual problem.