I'd love to see more critical feedback in the galleries - if I think an image can be improved by something simple, I'll say so, and I appreciate it when, in return, someone tells me that they reckon my composition is wonky.

That said, what really irks me is when an image I'm sure is worth seeing gets little or no feedback at all.

For instance, take this image, featured in the most recent LWITG. The previous (2? I don't remember) times that I've had images picked, there's been a sudden increase in viewers and comments - and, as a result, since about 1/10 comments is a critical one, an increase in useful feedback. This time, nothing - to be honest, I'm suprised that someone noticed the image in order to feature it, since it's had all of 19 views in total - about half what I'd normally expect for an image which I thought was decent. Of course, some of that is attributable to being in Australia, and thus tending to post at odd times.

So, is the image boring? Or just the thumb? Does the thumb show too much detail, making clicking seem pointless? Yep, I'm asking for a sort of meta-feedback - feedback on why I might have got so little feedback.

(if this little rant should be pulled out to another thread, I'd apprecaite a PM to that effect.)

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