I'll admit that I often avoid rating and only leave nice comments even if I find the work appauling. In past, I looked at everything. Now, I only click on the images that look like the artist is doing something different than a typical pin-up. I wish there was a nice way of saying, "your picture might actually be a good composition if you took the time to complete it" to some of the naked Vicki people. That's what a lot of these pin-ups look like to me...incomplete. Great lighting, great texturing, great posing... but the lack of clothes sometimes makes it not come together. I kind of like ysaen using the "good" rating sparingly and for the things she truly likes. I know that when I see something that I think was well done, I would like to be able to use a lower rating than the highest possible sometimes. But at times, I think that might be impolite. At the same time, I see a lot of people rating images "excellent" on the basis on TNA. I've only recented started allowing my images to be rated again because of this. I think there needs to be a disclaimer on the gallery about the rating system urging those who use it to be fair. And I think ysaen's thread points out that there are those of us who are artists and truly want feedback, and then there are others who don't. I may start becoming a little more assertive with want I say in the galleries as far as constructive criticism in order to encourage some to take their art to another level...