Well, I just wrote up a nice long reply and it didn't take, so I'll try it again, shorter this time. I have some pretty strong feelings about this topic. It's one of the reasons that I left. The rankings are worthless unless your goal is to get into the highest gallery. The comments are good as long as they are given the proper perspective. Some of us need to divide our comment numbers by a popularity factor of 2 or 3 to get a realistic comparison with the other images here. For me, the comments became personally bad. I started to think that I was something that I wasn't. I would take 1 honest criticism over 50 of the other kind. By the way, I still feel like a flake when I put an image here. I made such a stink when I left. I feel like I should appologize for something, I am just not sure what. I can tell fairly quickly if an image is worth while. It only takes a couple of hours, a day at the most, then I figure I can delete it, which is what I have been doing, except the last couple of images. It works well for me to do that. Keith