Quote - You know it might be nice to have a forum set aside for just this sort of purpose - attracting attention to gallery pieces and discussing them.

I can see something like that being abused. People would use it as a place to advertise all of  their gallery uploads in order to generate views and comments.

I can see  that  being a viable idea if the images posted were in the thread and not the gallery which is  IMHO  a place to put finished work for viewing.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi