sorry did not read all the posts yet, just answering darkelegance : so what's your point ? should we give up using/posting the galleries ? for me, gallery's use is what you think it is. no more no less. So far the only two uses i found in gallery posting was to discover people's work whom i would never had the odds of browsing by mere luck without them leaving a comment (and so chat with them to learn from them, as so far all people who commented my work wre really skilled, compared to me... starting from ground level though so it is easy :) second use is to put on myself some challenges of skills/tricks to learn, and post the result to see if i am making progresses. also 3rd use is just to make low quality but nice pictures (in other ways, such as humor/joke) i had in mind... if one believe gallery and gallery comment are good for anything really serious then good luck for them ! anyway, dark elegance, now you put your point, just tell us what should we do ? have any idea/solutions ?