There's been problems with people hitting the roof if they received a less-than-stellar critique. I'm not talking about "You suck" comments, but merely, "This is good, but you might want to add something here" comments. I think it's sad that people can't handle honest, useful criticism. Alot of people are also afraid to criticize, that they'll hurt the person's feelings. We've also had some threads where people say, "No gallery = no right to critique" because we get the occasional no-talent troll. On the other hand, as someone pointed out in the Poser Forum today, you don't need to be an expert with tons of masterpieces to have an informed opinion. Me, I'm a b****, so I'll critique anything. ;-) Actually, there's a few things I won't critique, like real-life stories because I'm not comfortable with commenting on those (gee, I don't think it's believable that you felt that way?!?), and a few things have hit far too close to home, but otherwise I have an opinion on everything. I figure that there's no reason to have gallery comments if you can't be (politely) honest. That said, it takes me a while to critique things because I look things over several times and edit my comments several times before I'm satisfied with my critique. I can't claim I take as much time critiquing as the artist took with the original work, but I do take time. I'm not afraid to critique most things because I may not be an expert, but in those (many) cases I can look at things from a layman's point of view, and isn't that who we try to reach most of the time - the average person on the street? I'd rather hear a friend honestly say that they were entertained than have a literary expert expound on the amazing mythic symobolism I've invoked. What you may want to do is to find a few people whose opinions you trust and ask them to form a critique club; you alert each other when you've posted new pictures so everyone can critique and get critiqued. Personally, I think that good critics (and editors) are highly underrated. Then again, I have the suspicion that I'm a better critic than artist, so maybe it's just a falter ego at work. (Photoshop and Poser are out to get me, I swear!) Cheers!