If I can digress from these private conversations for a minute to add some final words/questions about the new direction of the critic group in general:
-Will we be able to chose  the 'special gallery'  in addition to the another gallery (eg poser)?
-Is there going to be an easy link between the  gallery and the forum? What I mean is , would we be able to upload an image to the gallery and click a button to indicate we want critiques and that will automatically create a thread and a link to the forum?
Although I 'm not happy with the current format, and probably would have been saying goodbye at the moment I'm not sure if  the new direction would help me.
I dont see myself using the critique forum by itself  significantly. If I have a technical questions I can ask them in the general forum. I dont post WIP, and  I dont want my images to be designed by a committee. I just wanted comments/thoughts/feelings  on my 'final' creation. If there are blatant errors of course I would like it pointed out/discussed, and that's when a link from the gallery  to a forum would be useful.
I have gained a lot from joining the group, and I'm happy that I did, but unfortunatly now I predominatly  seem to benefit only from communications with people who are not in the group.

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