i never really cared one way or the other about the thumb. doesn't matter to me that much. i will skip over an image without a thumb though. i only recently just learned how to make the thumb look good. most of the time when i would resize my thumb, the thumb would terrible. so when it looked sucky, i would simply crop out a portion and resize and normally it would look better. then i found out that the reason my thumbs were looking sucky was because i was resizing them in bucubic. so now i usually resize in smart size and they look better. i don't like to resize my images with the frame. and sometimes i just like to make my thumb a bit different just for the hell of it. i also started resizing a lot of my thumbs at 200 x 200...not all of them but some.