I'm happier using the regular gallery function for this and will prefer it myself in the longer run, most likely.  I still feel that an open forum will distract the focus and simple hard honesty that can be had from a one-shot comment, as opposed to an ongoing conversation. 

For WIP that's another matter entirely, and interaction and socialization is a lot more a part of the process.

edit:  Hell, I'm remembering how hard I had to push people in this forum recently for feedback when I was doing the V4 lip morphs in my sig.  Maybe 2 or 3 people had serious contributions, with strong direction on what they would like - but here they are 2100 downloads later, thanks to those 2 or 3 people that were kind of enough to give feedback.  To me that's a good example of the syndrome Cobaltdream is talking about.

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