I have had several members troll my gallery here in the past, after forum or chat room disputes or whatever, and I think it would be nice if I had the power to remove those comments from my gallery, without having to consult a moderator. The comments don't really offend me - if anything, they make the people who leave them look like idiots - but it would be nice to have some control over the juvenile actions of others, when it comes to my gallery. Most other communities have this feature. Of course, it could be abused - people deleting genuine critiques because they only want to hear flowery praise, but I still think self-moderation in one's own gallery is a good idea.

The main idea for not allowing it, would be that members would abuse the ability, more to the point they could/would delete any comment that gave them a low rating, thus giving more scrupulous individuals a back door to raising the overall rating of their pictures. Other than that; The members leaving a comment would be upset that their comment was deleted, this might give opportunity/yet another reason for a "fight" between members. More reason for certain members to troll your gallery out of revenge, etc, etc. It also takes the Mods out of the loop. Meaning, if you were given a bad comment, then deleted it, THEN decided to contact us for help, (which WOULD happen more than not) there is nothing we could do, since we never saw the comment. I lot of he said/she said. AgentSmith

Well, we could always do away with the rating system, which I think is pointless anyway. I am a member at epilogue.net, wich is a very slick site, and the ability to manage one's own gallery comments has never, seemingly, caused any problems. They also don't have a rating system.

It's good for a demo, though. Someone wants to see the best of Rendo, so they sort by best rated, most viewed, or most commented.

I think the ability to delete comments on one's OWN gallery should be allowed...or at least the option to. However I think that there should be a good system in place for this. i.e. although the public and that member would no longer see the comment, the admin and mods should be able to see it (perhaps saving all comments submitted to a log) and as such their rating/ranking could also be preserved for that given picture. Should be possible in theory. Hi AgentSmith, how's The Matrix goin'?....caught Morpheus yet?...lol j/k :-P PS. i think AgentSmith is kinda cool, but I'm afraid I prefer Morpheus....don't like Neo much...lol.

"I am a member at epilogue.net ... They also don't have a rating system." That's true, though they have a baffling graph-type thing and ranks of names with chevrons that so far I can't find any explanation for! :) But I agree, the rating system here is so pointless it should be scrapped. I'm all for ratings for people that want to use them, but it's been so nicey-ised (great word!) here that it's no longer of any value. But have you seen the rating systems on sites like GFXArtist? Absolutely impenetrable. What does it mean? What's wrong with 0 to 100? Even digitalart, which uses a simple ranking process, has decided on 1 to 5 in steps of 0.5! Why? What about 1.3 to 4.32 in steps of 0.2836? Madness! :)

I looove epilogue's graph system!!! I'm a visual person, so I like to see the pretty colored bars ;) At epilogue, your ranking in the community is simply determined by the number of gallery views. Bah! Just do away with the stupid rankings.

"At epilogue, your ranking in the community is simply determined by the number of gallery views." So... if I don't post anything for a month, do I then rank last for that month? I just thought it was strange. I only joined recently, then uploaded a pic that went from rank 13,200 to 3 overnight, then down to 40. Very odd! The big drawback on epilogue I think, is that if you're called Annie Aardvark or ZeeZee Zephyr then you'll get dozens of times more views than everyone else because two of the three gallery ordering options are by first and last name!!! :) (the third being join date).

Well, just thank Christ we're not at Elfwood...

Yes, if you don't post anything your ranking starts to slip quite quickly; I was climbing steadily for a while, then slipped way down when I stopped posting. Its a constant battle to stay up there. But as I don't give a toss about rankings, it doesn't matter to me.

Socar Miles - one of epilogues most popular members - started posting less frequently so her ranking would drop out of the top 10, as she'd been receving a lot of nasty emails due to her high ranking.

That pic of yours must have had a massive amount of views.

As for screennames...what about "tuttle turtle", or "King Tutt"?

"As for screennames..." I just went for my real name on Epilogue - boring or what? :) Isn't Socar Myles one of the judges there?

Yes, she is. Bit up her own arse really, but there you go...

"Bit up her own arse really" lol! That's the last time you'll be getting anything past the judges! :))))

bah! screw 'em. They're actually a little bit anti-digital over there. For example, you could have a fairly decent digital piece rejected, but if you were to submit that same piece under the pretence that it was an oil painting, it WOULD get accepted. So I can't be bothered with them. Maybe I'm just bitter.

Very true. It's sort of the opposite of raph.com, where any hint of postwork will get your stuff thrown out! Sometimes you just can't win! :)

A suggestion about deletion of comments. On a site I help manage, we have a "user-moderated" forum, meaning there is a little link on every post called "report." If a user finds a forum post he feels objectionable, he clicks report, fills in a little text box explaining why he feels the post should be deleted, then the moderator decides whether the reason is valid. This kind of a system could work for deleting comments without having people abuse it by deleting anything that doesn't kiss their ass.