There is no doubt that placing huge advertisements is against the forum rules. But for me there is no doubt either that the reaction of Spirit was to harsh as there are other proper methods of solving such problems.

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Just for the record:
I'm no Torque fanboy or whatsoever, I even don't use Torque, but I like objective conversations about different products as it always offers useful information about upcoming software and workflows.
By "objective conversations" I certainly don't mean the "yes"-"no" engine bashing which is going on lately.