I certainly agree about the 'helpful comments'. I have only ever had one comment that wasn't complimentary - and that was that someone didn't like my frame!! 'Don't like' is definitely not helpful - that's just a matter of taste. I am horrified by the penulitmate paragraph in the previous post. Why one earth would anyone do this? Any comment made because of 'persuasion' would be worth nothing anyway. Obviously, a lot of people feel very strongly about this whole situation, including myself. Maybe anonymous comments would solve the problem of 'you comment on mine and I'll comment on yours' or maybe no option to comment at all and send an IM privately. It would take a bit more time and trouble and so would maybe mean more, would be personal to the artist concerned and nobody else would be influenced by it. I presume that other galleries have the same problem - as some of it's down to 'human nature' - perhaps a complete shake up of the whole site would be a good thing for us all.

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