Yeah, there's no reason we can't have both a gallery and forum, if that's what people prefer. I'm all about having choices :-)

Connie:
Perhaps something when someone turns the critique requested switch on, it automatically creates a thread or some sort of a flag or notification in a critique forum, that this member is requesting critique on their piece. A thread for critique, and a link to their image in the gallery.

I think making it work like that would bring the system to its knees, but I can see possibilities in developing this idea further. This is more or less what I meant when I suggested a critique "filter" (just like the nudity and violence filters) so that you could choose to specifically view images depending on whether or not they requested crit. So for example, I could go to the Poser gallery and select "All" and "Critique requested" or "2D" and "People" and "All" or "Bryce" and "SciFi" and "Critique requested"... you get the idea. The critique "flag" should also be visible on the main gallery page (again, like nudity and violence) so that you could just randomly surf, as I know a lot of people do.

Keep the ideas flowing, folks...

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